Captain Jinks, Hero

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pared by the women on the same ground where they had dined, and by eight o'clock the expedition started, composed of some thirty warriors, several of whom were laden with presents in the shape of b

" Cleary had said, and his friends were so well sati

re bringing in all the chiefs of the Moritos. They are ready to lay d

e you managed it?

ey were about to kill us when, by the sheer force of his glance and hi

sts that way," said the general,

isted on going thither, and the next day the brigade marched back again, leaving a small garrison behind. The army at San Diego could hardly believe its eyes when at sundown the expedition returned, having fully accomplished its object without firing a shot and accompanied by a band of Moritos. When Cleary's version of the exploit became know

esident some of these days. All the time we were up in the mounta

ntiful libations of whisky and soda with him. They spent a week of festivity in the to

t man. His two exploits had made him the most famous officer in the army, even more so than the general in command. Soon after his return to the city one of the civil commissioners, who had been sent out by the Administration, gave a large dinner in his honor at the palace. The chief officers and civil officials were among the guest

ith a patriotic speech which thrilled the hearts of his audience.

nd for? For the rights of the oppressed all over

r, "Be careful; some of those captured rebel officers are shut up in there, and perhaps they can overhear you. Be

he repeated. "For liber-No-for-r-r--Wel

nd navy," whisp

avy, for our officers and men, for our men-of-war and artille

nd the speaker smiled with satisfaction.

atures, I say, who disapprove of our glorious deeds, who spurn the flag and the noble principles for which it stands and to which I have alluded, who say that we have no business to take away land which belongs to oth

gentlemen b

shed our enlightened institutions? For instance, let me cite the custom house

ed the prompter aga

r is also with us. And there ar

young lieutenant who had taken too much wine, at the f

e the thread of his remarks for several moments. The guests in the mean time moved

e filled with humanity and to desire the welfare of mankind. They pretend to object to bloodshed. They are mere sentimentalists. They are not practical men. They do not understand

just as well stop at this point, and he sat down, not altogether satisfied, however, with his peroration and vexed to think that he had

Cleary. "That was a bad break about the postmaster. I h

e matter, and how the military operations had prevented him from calling on the contractors. "Civilians don

ght up on tabasco sauce. Wh

, consisting of soldiers and natives in equal proportions. The last round was just finishing, and Joe Corker was in the act of knocki

id Cleary. "Come, I

wn by his assistants. Sam looked at the great man and felt rather small and insignificant. "Here's a kind of civilian who is

t fight. You knocked him out clean. Here's my friend, Colonel

ded condes

m, not altogether at his ease. "It remind

of those fellers who cried 'fake.' It was as fair as fair could be, and Dandy and me was a

nt," said Cleary. "They didn't t

our rules anyw

aught it at East Point was to take a smaller man if you could, and you see, the army does just the same thing. W

said Corker, dri

man of his size or one bigger than he is, he gives the wrong a chance of winning, and that is clearly immo

away after they had respectfully bade the pugilist good-night. A crowd of soldiers was waiting

ghter beats a colonel all hollow," said

ll the local newspapers submitted to him, but also all other printed matter. One day a large number of handbills were confiscated at a printer's and brought in for

ied Sam. "I have no ti

nd that they get their only authority from the free will

t be some plot at the bottom of it. Have the who

ationed among them, that the whole province of San Diego was in revolt, and that the regiment there would

this mean

an apologetically, "this is a newspaper

ministration at Whoppington. Any one can see how this would injure it, and news that can injure it is, from the military point of view, untrue. General Notice is making a tour of the country at home, receiv

't the people know that you are co

they show their gratitude by voting money to send new regiments. Your action in printing this stuff is most disloyal. I will send one o

his shoulders. As he went out Cleary ca

ve you?" said Sam. "It's an outrag

it's true,"

the business of an army to conquer a country. We've don

tos. As for San Diego, Colonel Booth of your old regiment is in command, and I half think he didn't back up the Morito garrison out of jealousy toward you. He wanted to have the Morito country go back, so as to belittle our exploit. B

e, for if they think it's true it makes them just as happy as if it we

y say he's writing a book to show that a diet of mummies is the best for fighting men-and so the quarrels go on. By the way, I j

n't seen a copy o

m the cable-office just in time. It would ha

ve committee of fifty thousand copies of the Declaration in Cast

'll call my native secretary and inqu

his mean?" he asked th

thought

, "but perhaps that paper I translated for you the other

they b

y were seized, and

over there and look at it. It's a ha

Sam, as they walked along together.

up a lot of them, but it didn't do them much harm, for a lot of recruits came in just afterward from the mountains. That convent was born to be blown up, it seems, for some Castalian anarchists had a plot

islands and put all the anarchists of the world there and let them live out their precious theories. Just think what a hell it would be! What infernal engines of

a battle-ship,"

destroy law and order and upset the peaceable course of society in such a

lowing up of the convent didn't do much good. There was some talk of putting

e barbarous and against all military pre

ed to being blown up with bombshells. In some respects they don't pay much attention to the rules, either. They don't take pr

ages, we must remem

o say the least. I saw one man in the 73d try his new revolver on a native rowing a boat on the river, and ov

d Sam, smiling. "They're

iego, and some of our fellows picked them off as neatly as you please. It must h

employed by reasonable people. "It doesn't pay to be squeamish. The squeamish men don't make goo

t. They were trying to make two dogs fight, but the dogs refus

hey are," said Sam. "

to ask you, have you seen the papers from home this morning? They're all full of

iographies, anecdotes, interviews, headlines, everything that his wildest dreams had imagined, only grander and

song about you," sai

Jinks of the

orse on cor

's quite bey

tain in t

d Sam. "What are the horse-marine

ut everything I've asked you to for him, and he doesn't want people to know about his pull. That's the reason why he's never called on you. But he says it's the best newspaper job he ever heard of. I tell you we're a great combination, you and I. Perhaps I'll write a book and call it, 'With Jinks at Havilla.' Rather an original title, isn't it? But

I'm tired of this literary business.

OF THE

THESE PEOPLE TO TALK

erty was stored. A soldier who was acting as watchman showed them w

the Declaration of In

copy and loo

suppressed anyway. What business have these people to talk about equal rights and the consent of the governed? The men who wrote the Declaration-Jeffries and the rest-were mere civilians and t