Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26
On the Edge of Cuban Duel
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Bureigh Besides, if Burleigh got jerked up
he would be forced to disclose the names of the
Cubans, and he, the editor, did not want to play
Dictator"
All. here was a thought! FASTENED back. |
found tones cheering Burleigh by telling him
that Lorenzo Jose Miramon Heredia, his chal
lenger, had a Damascus blade and that he
could with one stroke cut sofa pillow IN two.
ZONES" said l, run another story telling
how Burleigh refused the New York offer
that he would in no circumstances leave Ha-
vana. which he considers the most beautiful
city in the world and its people the most charm
ing in the same old orb
Zones consented, and then he departed to the
American legation. Anything that comes from
the legation goes with the authorities. He
found one of the secretaries Just locking up
told him the whole thing, and asked him to set
the police after Burleigh so he would have an
excuse to leave the country. The secretary
languidly promised, and doubtless would have
put it off and forgotten it, but as they left the
offices luckily they ran into police official.
Quite likely the legation thought Bureigh was
good man to have out of the country, what
with some sharp things he had said about the
legation: The secretary got quite earnest.
The Cuban Government was trying to stamp
out dueling, even as had tried Spain before.
Here was this American helping foster and con-
tinue dueling, and the police should make an
example of him.
Burleieh's Sudden Departure
THE police got around the next afternoon.
Burleigh wasn't there. He would have
liked to do something theatrical and convincing
in the way OF a narrow escape, but decided to
be on the safe side. He was at Matanzas, where
a sugar steamer to sail for New Orleans
that night. When he got telegram that the
police had actually been after him, he went
aboard.
Jones had run the story that Burlegh would
stay in Havana. Next day he told how the
police had learned that Burlelph was about to
fight duel, and how Burleigh, though almost
descending to tears at being compelled to leave
Havana, rather than stay and be hauled into
court and forced to inform on several gallant
and sympathetic" caballeros, had run away
1t was an act of sublime self sacrifice Some of
the CaballerOs had been up before, and on
second offense it would go hard with them
Jones brought that out. Never would the
generous Burleigh be happy anywhere but in
Havana. But he could not be happy there if he
the unwilling cause of the Imprisonment of
a number of ChIvalrouS, refined and dlStIn-
guished scions of the best families.
These sClons were profoundly impressed.
They were also highly Complmented. The
trite, grandiloquent adjectives which mean lit
tie in the mouths of Spanish folk, were not
habituay used by Americans unless meant.
Jones had carried Spanish grandloSe adJeCtlVeS
of encomium and eulogium over into English,
and it much more strong and forcible y
than the Spanish, the English blankety
blank is than the French ''sacre." For once
these young men proved that the adjective
American sense. They made up a purse to buy
a present for the noble Burleigh, and, bethink-
ing them that he would be cold in the terrible
North American winters. they sent HIM two
hundred dollars with which to purchase a fur
lined overcoat and think of himself when he
wore it, as embraced by the warm sun and
the warmer hearts of Cuba"