Greene County herald., 1905-11-24


vas not to be allowed to land in Hon
uras, as he was plotting an insurrec-
ion He put on his glasses to read it.
When he looked up at me, he said:
We shan't see where your mother is
'uried, nor the place where you were
'orn.' He shook hands with the friend
md said nothing more.
"On the day we were in Ocos, in the
fternoon, saw the comandante come
n the steamer with some soldiers.
Ie said he wanted to arrest papa, but
hat IL he came along willingly he
Tould not use force.
am under the American flag
apa said. I know who has done this.
would mean my death if | went
9th you Suddenly | heard shot
nd then another. | hurried to papas
oom. Outside there were two soldiers
inning into it. l saw papa sitting on
is camp-stool and his two reyolvers
we're in his lap. He was hunting for
lis glasses, but the chain had slipped
'own. He could not see to shoot One
If the soldiers, after a long time, fred
lis gun again, and father suddenly
picked up his revolvers, and | cried
tut again. He didn't shoot, and l
Inow now that he was afraid of hitting
ne. Then he fell. The soldiers fired
lgain and ran away, painting and yell
ing to each other. | went into papa,
md he asked for his glasses, sitting up
IN the floor very weakly. When
Z iJund them and gave them to him, the
blood was running very fast down his
,reast. He put on his glasses with
both hands, wrinkling up his forehead
IN the old way, and looked at me
cry He looked. +. He said, 1
I'M glad l could see you, little one /. i.
,efore l CO. That was ALL"
She went to the window and stayed
here, immobile, while Vincent walked
lp and down behind her At last she
urned around THAT was five years
lgo. No one has done anything to
lunish them"
Vincent, because she was suddenly to
lin the woman, did what every man
once in his life will do for one woman:
le sacrificed his sense of humor. With
I'll seriousness he stiffened up. "It
was under my flag he was shot down.
we served under it. Give me another
lag for Guatemala and I'll go down
there and those murderers shall die
against a wall, with your flag flying
over their heads, its shadow wavering
it their feet on the yellow sand.''
Marie Rivas, because she was the
Woman in this case, understood per-
Getty. "a revolution?" she said, very
luietly. He bent over her hand grave
|ly and youthfully. His manner was
confident, as if he saw very clearly
what was to be done and knew how to
10 it, not as if he had promised girl
With tear stains on her cheeks to over
urn government because of a murder
me hot afternoon ON steamer in a
soreign port.
This was the beginning of the affair.
It's continuation was in little town
On the Guatemalan coast, where Vim
cent landed with a ton of munitions of
war, marked Manufactures of Metal, y
md thirty ragged soldiers. A month
later he had thousand insurgents and
twenty tons of munitions. and his
blood had drunk in the fever that
burns up the years in hours. The first
thing Vincent did under its spell was
to march on Ocos and take it, When
the town was his and the commandante
in irons, the young man took out of his
pocketbook little list of names, made
out in Maria Rivass hand, He COM
pared this list with the list of prison
ers and ordered out a firing squad.
Half an hour later the shadow of the
| flag made by the Woman in the Vale
10 street fiat waver over the sand
on which lay six men in a tangle.
Generalissimo Thomas Vincent went
out into the sun and looked at the
| last postures of the six, and then out
across the brimming waters of the
Pacific. A mail steamer lay out there
in the midst of a cluster of canoes, the
American flag dropping from her mast
An Irishman in majors uniform
came out of the cool of the barracks
and stopped beside Vincent Another
week ought to see us in the capital,
he said slowly. "But | don't like this
business, general These beggars don,t
amount to anything. Why did you
order them shot?'
| A barefoot girl Of some ten years
crept around the corner OF, the sun
baked wall She picked her way over
| the sand, darting hot glances fearfully
at the two officers. Suddenly she
stopped over the crooked body Of one
| of the motionless ones. She tugged al
the sleeve OF shirt, ard as the face
turned slightly upward to her effort
she fell to beating on the ground with
both hands, and sobbed in the heat
dry eyed.
| Vincent strobe over to her, and
gently picked her up. Her quick sobs
| did not cease as he carried her into
| the shade, his own face drawn and
white. He looked over at the major
who stood gnawing on his stubbs
moustache. He did not reply to The
! question until the major repeated il
angrily. IT was because they de.
served it. {. Vincent stopped an6
then went on, almost inaudibly, "Gos
knows why did it, and then there's
the He stopped once. more
for the girls hard sobs had ceased, ant
| her little hands had darted from tn.
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