Enterprise news-record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911, 1911-02-18
CHATTER XVIII

- AEF OIE the eXcltlnS story so
MA rudely interrupted is resumed
AG it may be- well to set down in
their sequence the queer work
ings of fortune which led to Philips
timely reappearance at Las Flores
His troop Of scouts consisted of
twenty-eight men Five were sailors
and firemen from the Andromeda;
three were Germans from the UnSer
Fritz. But the whole eight were es
soldiers. and one man at arms trained
on the European model is worth ten
of the Brazilian product. The remain
ing twenty were hilmen. good riders
excellent shots and acquainted with
every yard of the wild country within
radius of hundred miles. They
would fight anybody if well led. and
here it may be observed that when
ballroom he said Come onr between
which curt command and its congener.
| Go onr' these half breed warriors
drew a fine distinction. The Language
| difficulty was surmounted partly by
an interpreter in the person of one of
the Germans. who spoke English and
had lived in Bahia. partly by signs
and largely by Philips methods as a
leader
He never asked his men to do any
thing that he did not do himself. and
they were never dubious as to his tao
tics, since be invariably closed with
any Nationalist detachment met dur
ing the days operations.
About midday. then. they came upon
| the advance guard of column sent
off week earlier by the expert at
Pesqueira with instructions to arrive
at Las Flores before sunset that very
day. Instantly the twenty charg
ed. With equal celebrity the advance
guard bolted. From the crest Of a
rocky pass Philip looked down on a
column of fully a thousand men. The
situation was critical. 1t called for
prompt handling. Five men held the
horses. twenty three spread themselves
among the rocks, Philip unslung his
carbine, and twenty four rifles INDUCED
in long range practice on narrow
mountain path crowded with men and
animals.
Nothing more was needed. 1t has
been noted already that the Brazilians
disliked long range shooting. There
was stampede. The scouts occupied
the ridge until sundown and were re-
turning leisurey to report the pres
ence of the column when they fell in
with the first batch of fugitiyes from
the valley. Forthwith Philip became
general and each scout an officer.
They reasoned and whacked the run
aways into obedience, picked up quite
| q number of men who were willing
enough to fight if told what was ex
pected of them. and the rest was a
matter of simple strategy such as
Macaulay's schoolboy would exhibit in
the escalade of snow fort. But it
was a near thing Five minutes later
and Hozier might have seized the pres
idency himself
And now as to the night and the
next day.
Russo and his diminished staff took
| Philips little army as nucleus. Bra
I'll had duly elected Dom Corria, as
| provided by the statute. and the news
| spread like widtire. Before morning
the Liberationisrs were 10000 strong.
Before night closed the roads sagaiD
the Pesqneira genius wrote to Dom
| Corria under flag OF truce and point
ed out that he served the president,
not any crank who said he was presi-
/ dent. but the nonored individual in
| whom the people OF Brazil placed their
trust. Dom Corria replied in feicitous
incident ended. The navy sulked for
awhile. because II held that Russo's
| treatment of the Andorhina was not
| cricket or baseball or whatsoever game
appeals most TO the Brazilian sports
4 man. 1t was not even professional
football. 1t said. but an acrimonious
discussion was closed by strong hint
from the treasury that pay day might
be postponed indefinitely If too much
were made of regrettable accident to
| the guns of the Maceio artillery.
Meanwhile Dom Corria. the man who
did not forget. was puzzled by two cir
cumstances not Of national Importance.
/ San Benavides. never a demonstrating
lover where Carmela was concerned.
/ was changed man, He was severely
wounded during the light. and Carrnela
nursed him assiduously, but there
| could be no doubt that he was under
her thumb and would remain there.
/ The Indications were subtle. but nn-
mistakabe Carmela even announced
the date OF their marriage
Dom Corria remembered. of course.
what San Beuavides and his daughter
had said when they all met in the ball.
room. n seemed to him that Salvador
was telling the truth and that. CarfDcla
was fbbing on that occasion. R"' hf