“BUT Gaspar Ruiz breathed yet. I had him carried in his poncho under the shelter of some bushes on the very ridge from which he had been gazing so fixedly at the fort while unseen death was hovering a
“BUT Gaspar Ruiz breathed yet. I had him carried in his poncho under the shelter of some bushes on the very ridge from which he had been gazing so fixedly at the fort while unseen death was hovering a
“Now Carreras, under the guise of politics and liberalism, was a scoundrel of the deepest dye, and the unhappy state of…
“AFTER this—as he called it—act of justice, Ruiz crossed the Rio Blanco, followed by the greater part of his band, and …
WITH movements of mechanical care and an air of abstraction old General Santierra lighted a long and thick cigar. “It …
“SENORES,” related the General to his guests, “though my thoughts were of love then, and therefore enchanting, the sigh…
GENERAL SANTIERRA was right in his surmise. Such was the exact nature of the assistance which Gaspar Ruiz, peasant son …
“I KNEW those people by sight,” General Santierra would tell his guests at the dining-table. “I mean the people with wh…
GASPAR RUIZ, who could with ease bend apart the heavy iron bars of the prison, was led out with others to summary execu…
“GASPAR RUIZ had clambered up on the sill, and sat down there with his feet against the thickness of the wall and his k…
Comments (0)