Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-07-08


! gold cigarette case, selected a ciga
r rette. lighted Il and blew smoke al
l. Ricardo. The jig was up; he knew
0 IL; and with admirable nOnchalance
D he declined to lower his presidential
3 dignity by discussing or considering it.
, He realized It would delight his cap
tor TO know he dreaded to face the
issue. and II was not a Sarros practice
10 give aid and comfort to the enemy.
'Spunky deyill" Ricardo reflected,
forced 10 admiration despite himself
Aloud he said: you know the code
Of our people. <Sarros An eye for
an eye and tooth for TOOTH"
Sarros bowed. 81 am at your serv-
ice" he replied carelessly.
"Then at daylight tomorrow morn
ing shall make settlement" Ricardo
beckoned his men to approach. Take
this man and confine him under
double guard In the arsenal" he or
dered. present my compliments to
the officer In charge there and tell
! him II is my wish that a priest be
provided for the prisoner tonight. and
that tomorrow morning, at six o'clock.
a detail OF six men and a sergeant
escort this man to the cemetery IN
the rear OF the Cathedral de la Cruz.
/ win meet the detail there and take
command Of H."
Two Of Ricardo's imported fighting |
men stepped to the prisoners side. |
seized him, one by each arm, and lift |
ed him 20 his feet; supported be-
tween them, he limped away TO his
doom, while his youthful conqueror
remained seated on the dead horse.
his gaze bent upon the ground, his
mind dwelling, not upon his triumph
over Sarros but upon the prodlgious
proportions of the task before him.
the rehabilitation of a nation. After
a while he rose and strolled over TO-
ward the gate, where he paused to
note the grim evidences of the final
stand of Webster and Don Juan Cafe
tero before passing through the por-
tai.
Ricardo had now, for the first time,
an opportunity to look around him;
so he halted TO realize his home-com-
ing, to thrill with this, the first real
view or the home Of his boyhood. The
lawn surrounding the palace
had been pl0wed and SCARED with
bursting shrapnel from the field guns
captured In the arsenal, although the
building Itself had been little damaged,
not having sustained a direct hit be- /
cause Of Ricardo's stringent orders
not to use artillery on the palace I'M
less absolutely necessary to smoke
sarros out. Scattered over the grounds
counted some twenty-odd \
government soldiers, all wearing that
fiat. crumpled appearance
which seems inseparable from the
'odles of men killed in action. The
Irst shrapnel had probably COM
nenced to drop In the grounds just as A
portion OF the palace garrison had Z
cen marching out to join the troops
ghung at the cantOnment barracks
'vldently the men had scattered like
uail, only to be killed as they ran.
From this grim scene Ricardo raised 10
IS eyes TO the palace the castellated st
'wers OF which. looming through the In
itted palms. were rejecting the set DO
ng sun. Over the balustrade of one w,
the upper balconies the limp body sic
a Sarros sharpshooter, picked of on
ON the street. dropped grotesquely, rel
s arms hanging downward as IL In On
onical welcome to the son OF Ruey re,
e Beloved The sight induced in as
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$ Irish Imagination awoke: 10 him ba
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artyred peon symbolIred TO Ricardo ths
ley the spirit OF liberty, shackled rr,,
O helpless, calling upon him for 6e- The
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