The Opelousas courier., 1905-12-16

on his glasses with both hands, ant
looked at me as if he were very glad
and oh! loved 1t, for it was just like
it was when | was d little girl ant
ran into the big room:
But trouble came in Panama, ant
papa thought we'd better come up tt
San Francisco: I've been SO busy
down here II way and another he
said, that I'm always suspected of con
spiracy. Your mother is dead, and the
fun Of life is out Of it. We will live
%peaceably as BELTS an old man and his
daughter"
Vincents voice broke in on her
story. when was this?"
Five, years ago. And everything
went all right till We got to Amapala.
There a friend of para's came on board
and showed me. a paper. 1t said papa
was not to be allowed to land in Hon
duras, as he was plotting an insurrec-
ton. He put on his glasses to read it.
When he looked up at me. he said:
We shan't see where our mother is
buried, nor the place where you were
born He shook hands with the friend
and said nothing more.
"On the day we were In Gees. In the
afternoon, | saw the eomandante tome
OH the steamer with some soldiers.
He said he wanted ia arrest papa, but
that If he came along willingly he
would not use force.
81 am under the American flag
papa said. L know who has done this.
1t would mean my death If / went
with YOU Suddenly / heard a shot
and then another. l hurried to papa's
room. Outside there were two soldiers
aiming into IT, t san; papa sitting on
his camp-stool and his two 1evolvcrs
were in his lap. He was hunting for
his glasses, but the chain had slipped
down. He could not see to shoot. One
of the soldiers, after a long time, fred
his gun again, and father suddenly
picked up his revolvefs, and t cried
out again: He a,aa't Shout, aid /
know now hat he was afraid of hitting
me. Then he fell. The soldiers fired
again and ran away, painting and yell
ing to each other; | Welt into papa,
and he asked for his glasses, sitting up
on the floor very weakly. When |
found them and gave them to him, the
blood was running very fast down his
He put Oh BIS glasses with
both hands, w%rinkling up his forehead
in the old way, and looked at me
very He looked. He said, I.
am glad could see you, little one
before | go That was all"
She went to the window and stayed
there, immobile, while Vincent walked
up and down behind her. At last she
turned around. THAT was five years
ago. No n has done anything to
punish them.
Vincent, because she was suddenly to
him the woman, did what every. man
In his life will do for one woman:
1e sacrificed his seHse Of hunof: With
I'll seriousness be stiffened DIP. lit
vas Under my flag he was shot down.
we served under 1T. Give me ano.ner
for Guatemala ana I'll go down
here and those murderers shall die
against a wall, with your flag flying
,ver their heads, its shadow wavering
It their feet on the yellow sand"
Marie Rivas, because she was the
Woman in this case, understood per-
ectly. "A revolution" she said, very
He bent over her hand grave
y and y%outhfully. His manner was
onfident, as if he saw very clearly
What was to be done and knew low to
10 it, not as If he Had promised a girl
With tear stains on her cheeks to over
urn a government because of a murder
ne hot afternoon on a steamer in a
port.
This was the beginning of the affair.
is continuation was in a little town
n the Guatemalan coast, where Vim
emit landed with a ton Of munitions of
var, marked Manufactures of Metal"
nd thirty ragged soldiers. A month
liter he had a thousand insurgents and
wenty tons of munitions, and his
lood had drunk in the fever that
rms up the years in hours. The first
hing Vincent did under its spell was
} march on Ocos and take it. When
ne town was his and the commandante
/ irons, the young mar took out OF his
ocketbook a little list of names, made
ut in Maria Rivas's hand. He COM
AIRED this list with the list of prison
IS and ordered out a firing squad.
-alf an hour later the shadow Of the
ag mate by the Woman in the Valle-
which lay six men in a tangle.
eneralissimo Thomas Vincent went
Ut into the sun and looked at the
st postures of the six, and then out
ross the trimming waters of the
aciic. A mail steamer lay out there
the midst of a cluster of canoes, the
flag dropping from her mast.
An lrishman in a majors uniform
me out of the cool of the barracks
stopped beside Vincent. Another
eek ought to see us in the capital"
} said slowly. But I don't like this
lsiness, general. These beggars don't
mount to anything. Why did you
der them shot?"
A barefoot girl of some ten years
ept around the corner of the sun
.ked wall. She picked her way over
e sand, darting hot glances fearfully
tho two officers. Suddenly she
ooped over the crooked body of one
the motionless ones, She tuggsd at