Part 39 (1/2)
”Keep still while I tie up the cut,” he said
”But they've got Grahaently pushed hiht have lost ye both” Then he took up a piece of linen ”It's lucky ye'll no' need stitching, but maybe this will nip”
Walthew's head se was applied, but the dazed feeling left hian to ask questions
”Miguel heard a shot and ran back up the beach with the others,”
Macallister told hi, with two or three _rurales_ no' far behind; the rest one off with Grahame before our men came up They had just tian to shoot, but nobody was hit
Looks as if ye had been knocked oot with a carbine butt”
”Where are ?” Walthew asked
”Steaoon as fast as I can drive her, and that's aboot four knots against the gale The best thing we can do is to send Don Martin word, but ye'll go to sleep in the meanwhile I canna' look after ye; I hae ines, which quickened to a furious rattle when the screung out, made the need for watchfulness plain, and Walthew crept away to his berth He wanted to help, but knew that to atte the machinery
Dazed by the blow on his head, he soon fell asleep, and when he wakened the vessel was at rest There was no pounding of engines, and the water no longer gurgled along her side, but he heard voices behind the bulkhead
Scra aardly out of the berth, he made his way on deck with some difficulty The fresh air revived him, and he saw that the _Enchantress_ was anchored in the lagoon, but he opened a door close by instead of stopping to look about Two or three of the revolutionaries who round a table in the saloon, and as Walthew cae round his head, one of them threw up his hands
”_Ave Maria!_” he exclaimed
Walthew sat doith a jerk and nodded to Macallister
”I'm better”
Then he turned to the others
”What are we going to do?”
”Nothing, until to-night,” said one ”We must wait for dark before it is safe to move They will not keep your comrade at Valverde, and we must try to find out where they have taken him”
”I'll be quite well in a few hours,” Walthew declared ”But what is likely to happen to Grahaular course would be to try hi arms, but I do not think the President will follow that plan They may send him to Rio Frio, because it is soiven a chance of escaping on the way”
”Do you erly
”He would not go very far You must understand that the _rurales_ have authority to shoot a prisoner who tries to escape, and the Government finds this useful Sometimes they arrest a man whom they think the court could not convict, and an excuse is found for not watching hi taken to the nearest jail; perhaps a guard is called ahen they stop for food There is cover near, and the prisoner , fires and the administration is rid of an enemy Sometimes the _rurales_ break into the house of an obnoxious person and, taken by surprise, he gets angry A threateninghiang o' bloodthirsty scoundrels! I' it's time ye turned on them,” Macallister said, while Walthew sat silent with a tense face and fury in his eyes ”But, so far as we ken, they havena' shot Mr