"It is a whim2 of Placido's," said a friend who knew him well, "to take up political intrigue3. It is not otherwise than as if he had come upon a new tempo4 in music, a new bacillus in the air, a new scent5, or rhyme, or explosive. He will squeeze this revolution dry of sensations, and a week afterward6 will forget it, skimming the seas of the world in his brigantine to add to his already world-famous collections. Collections of what? Por Dios! of everything from postage stamps to prehistoric7 stone idols8."
But, for a mere9 dilettante10, the æsthetic Placido seemed to be creating a lively row. The people admired him; they were fascinated by his brilliancy and flattered by his taking an interest in so small a thing as his native country. They rallied to the call of his lieutenants12 in the capital, where (somewhat contrary to arrangements) the army remained faithful to the government. There was also lively skirmishing in the coast towns. It was rumoured14 that the revolution was aided by the Vesuvius Fruit Company, the power that forever stood with chiding15 smile and uplifted finger to keep Anchuria in the class of good children. Two of its steamers, the Traveler and the Salvador, were known to have conveyed insurgent troops from point to point along the coast.
As yet there had been no actual uprising in Coralio. Military law prevailed, and the ferment17 was bottled for the time. And then came the word that everywhere the revolutionists were encountering defeat. In the capital the president's forces triumphed; and there was a rumour13 that the leaders of the revolt had been forced to fly, hotly pursued.
In the little telegraph office at Coralio there was always a gathering19 of officials and loyal citizens, awaiting news from the seat of government. One morning the telegraph key began clicking, and presently the operator called, loudly: "One telegram for el Almirante, Don Señor Felipe Carrera!"
There was a shuffling20 sound, a great rattling21 of tin scabbard, and the admiral, prompt at his spot of waiting, leaped across the room to receive it.
The message was handed to him. Slowly spelling it out, he found it to be his first official order—thus running:
Proceed immediately with your vessel22 to mouth of Rio Ruiz; transport beef and provisions to barracks at Alforan.
Martinez, General.
Small glory, to be sure, in this, his country's first call. But it had called, and joy surged in the admiral's breast. He drew his cutlass belt to another buckle23 hole, roused his dozing24 crew, and in a quarter of an hour El Nacional was tacking26 swiftly down coast in a stiff landward breeze.
The Rio Ruiz is a small river, emptying into the sea ten miles below Coralio. That portion of the coast is wild and solitary27. Through a gorge28 in the Cordilleras rushes the Rio Ruiz, cold and bubbling, to glide29, at last, with breadth and leisure, through an alluvial30 morass31 into the sea.
In two hours El Nacional entered the river's mouth. The banks were crowded with a disposition32 of formidable trees. The sumptuous33 undergrowth of the tropics overflowed34 the land, and drowned itself in the fallow waters. Silently the sloop35 entered there, and met a deeper silence. Brilliant with greens and ochres and floral scarlets36, the umbrageous37 mouth of the Rio Ruiz furnished no sound or movement save of the sea-going water as it purled against the prow38 of the vessel. Small chance there seemed of wresting39 beef or provisions from that empty solitude40.
The admiral decided41 to cast anchor, and, at the chain's rattle42, the forest was stimulated43 to instant and resounding44 uproar45. The mouth of the Rio Ruiz had only been taking a morning nap. Parrots and baboons46 screeched47 and barked in the trees; a whirring and a hissing48 and a booming marked the awakening49 of animal life; a dark blue bulk was visible for an instant, as a startled tapir fought his way through the vines.
The navy, under orders, hung in the mouth of the little river for hours. The crew served the dinner of shark's fin16 soup, plantains, crab50 gumbo and sour wine. The admiral, with a three-foot telescope, closely scanned the impervious51 foliage52 fifty yards away.
It was nearly sunset when a reverberating53 "hal-lo-o-o!" came from the forest to their left. It was answered; and three men, mounted upon mules54, crashed through the tropic tangle56 to within a dozen yards of the river's bank. There they dismounted; and one, unbuckling his belt, struck each mule55 a violent blow with his sword scabbard, so that they, with a fling of heels, dashed back again into the forest.
Those were strange-looking men to be conveying beef and provisions. One was a large and exceedingly active man, of striking presence. He was of the purest Spanish type, with curling, gray-besprinkled, dark hair, blue, sparkling eyes, and the pronounced air of a caballero grande. The other two were small, brown-faced men, wearing white military uniforms, high riding boots and swords. The clothes of all were drenched57, bespattered and rent by the thicket58. Some stress of circumstance must have driven them, diable à quatre, through flood, mire11 and jungle.
"O-hé! Señor Almirante," called the large man. "Send to us your boat."
The dory was lowered, and Felipe, with one of the Caribs, rowed toward the left bank.
The large man stood near the water's brink59, waist deep in the curling vines. As he gazed upon the scarecrow figure in the stern of the dory a sprightly60 interest beamed upon his mobile face.
Months of wageless and thankless service had dimmed the admiral's splendour. His red trousers were patched and ragged61. Most of the bright buttons and yellow braid were gone from his jacket. The visor of his cap was torn, and depended almost to his eyes. The admiral's feet were bare.
"Dear admiral," cried the large man, and his voice was like a blast from a horn, "I kiss your hands. I knew we could build upon your fidelity62. You had our despatch—from General Martinez. A little nearer with your boat, dear Admiral. Upon these devils of shifting vines we stand with the smallest security."
"Provisions and beef for the barracks at Alforan," he quoted.
"No fault of the butchers, Almirante mio, that the beef awaits you not. But you are come in time to save the cattle. Get us aboard your vessel, señor, at once. You first, caballeros—á priesa! Come back for me. The boat is too small."
The dory conveyed the two officers to the sloop, and returned for the large man.
"Have you so gross a thing as food, good admiral?" he cried, when aboard. "And, perhaps, coffee? Beef and provisions! Nombre de Dios! a little longer and we could have eaten one of those mules that you, Colonel Rafael, saluted64 so feelingly with your sword scabbard at parting. Let us have food; and then we will sail—for the barracks at Alforan—no?"
The Caribs prepared a meal, to which the three passengers of El Nacional set themselves with famished65 delight. About sunset, as was its custom, the breeze veered66 and swept back from the mountains, cool and steady, bringing a taste of the stagnant67 lagoons68 and mangrove69 swamps that guttered70 the lowlands. The mainsail of the sloop was hoisted71 and swelled72 to it, and at that moment they heard shouts and a waxing clamour from the bosky profundities73 of the shore.
Further than his orders to his crew, the admiral was saying nothing. The topsail and jib were spread, and the sloop glided75 out of the estuary76. The large man and his companions had bestowed77 themselves with what comfort they could about the bare deck. Belike, the thing big in their minds had been their departure from that critical shore; and now that the hazard was so far reduced their thoughts were loosed to the consideration of further deliverance. But when they saw the sloop turn and fly up coast again they relaxed, satisfied with the course the admiral had taken.
The large man sat at ease, his spirited blue eye engaged in the contemplation of the navy's commander. He was trying to estimate this sombre and fantastic lad, whose impenetrable stolidity78 puzzled him. Himself a fugitive79, his life sought, and chafing80 under the smart of defeat and failure, it was characteristic of him to transfer instantly his interest to the study of a thing new to him. It was like him, too, to have conceived and risked all upon this last desperate and madcap scheme—this message to a poor, crazed fanatico cruising about with his grotesque81 uniform and his farcical title. But his companions had been at their wits' end; escape had seemed incredible; and now he was pleased with the success of the plan they had called crack-brained and precarious82.
The brief, tropic twilight83 seemed to slide swiftly into the pearly splendour of a moonlit night. And now the lights of Coralio appeared, distributed against the darkening shore to their right. The admiral stood, silent, at the tiller; the Caribs, like black panthers, held the sheets, leaping noiselessly at his short commands. The three passengers were watching intently the sea before them, and when at length they came in sight of the bulk of a steamer lying a mile out from the town, with her lights radiating deep into the water, they held a sudden voluble and close-headed converse84. The sloop was speeding as if to strike midway between ship and shore.
The large man suddenly separated from his companions and approached the scarecrow at the helm.
"My dear admiral," he said, "the government has been exceedingly remiss85. I feel all the shame for it that only its ignorance of your devoted86 service has prevented it from sustaining. An inexcusable oversight87 has been made. A vessel, a uniform and a crew worthy88 of your fidelity shall be furnished you. But just now, dear admiral, there is business of moment afoot. The steamer lying there is the Salvador. I and my friends desire to be conveyed to her, where we are sent on the government's business. Do us the favour to shape your course accordingly."
Without replying, the admiral gave a sharp command, and put the tiller hard to port. El Nacional swerved89, and headed straight as an arrow's course for the shore.
"Do me the favour," said the large man, a trifle restively90, "to acknowledge, at least, that you catch the sound of my words." It was possible that the fellow might be lacking in senses as well as intellect.
"They will stand you," he said, "with your face to a wall and shoot you dead. That is the way they kill traitors92. I knew you when you stepped into my boat. I have seen your picture in a book. You are Sabas Placido, traitor93 to your country. With your face to a wall. So, you will die. I am the admiral, and I will take you to them. With your face to a wall. Yes."
Don Sabas half turned and waved his hand, with a ringing laugh, toward his fellow fugitives94. "To you, caballeros, I have related the history of that session when we issued that O! so ridiculous commission. Of a truth our jest has been turned against us. Behold95 the Frankenstein's monster we have created!"
Don Sabas glanced toward the shore. The lights of Coralio were drawing near. He could see the beach, the warehouse96 of the Bodega Nacional, the long, low cuartel occupied by the soldiers, and, behind that, gleaming in the moonlight, a stretch of high adobe97 wall. He had seen men stood with their faces to that wall and shot dead.
Again he addressed the extravagant98 figure at the helm.
"It is true," he said, "that I am fleeing the country. But, receive the assurance that I care very little for that. Courts and camps everywhere are open to Sabas Placido. Vaya! what is this molehill of a republic—this pig's head of a country—to a man like me? I am a paisano of everywhere. In Rome, in London, in Paris, in Vienna, you will hear them say: 'Welcome back, Don Sabas.' Come!—tonto—baboon of a boy—admiral, whatever you call yourself, turn your boat. Put us on board the Salvador, and here is your pay—five hundred pesos in money of the Estados Unidos—more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years."
Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand. The admiral gave no heed99 to the words or the movement. Braced100 against the helm, he was holding the sloop dead on her shoreward course. His dull face was lit almost to intelligence by some inward conceit101 that seemed to afford him joy, and found utterance102 in another parrot-like cackle.
"That is why they do it," he said—"so that you will not see the guns. They fire—oom!—and you fall dead. With your face to the wall. Yes."
The admiral called a sudden order to his crew. The lithe103, silent Caribs made fast the sheets they held, and slipped down the hatchway into the hold of the sloop. When the last one had disappeared, Don Sabas, like a big, brown leopard104, leaped forward, closed and fastened the hatch and stood, smiling.
"No rifles, if you please, dear admiral," he said. "It was a whimsey of mine once to compile a dictionary of the Carib lengua. So, I understood your order. Perhaps now you will—"
He cut short his words, for he heard the dull "swish" of iron scraping along tin. The admiral had drawn105 the cutlass of Pedro Lafitte, and was darting106 upon him. The blade descended107, and it was only by a display of surprising agility108 that the large man escaped, with only a bruised109 shoulder, the glancing weapon. He was drawing his pistol as he sprang, and the next instant he shot the admiral down.
Don Sabas stooped over him, and rose again.
Colonel Rafael sprang to the helm, and the other officer hastened to loose the mainsail sheets. The boom swung round; El Nacional veered and began to tack25 industriously111 for the Salvador.
"Strike that flag, señor," called Colonel Rafael. "Our friends on the steamer will wonder why we are sailing under it."
"Well said," cried Don Sabas. Advancing to the mast he lowered the flag to the deck, where lay its too loyal supporter. Thus ended the Minister of War's little piece of after-dinner drollery112, and by the same hand that began it.
Suddenly Don Sabas gave a great cry of joy, and ran down the slanting113 deck to the side of Colonel Rafael. Across his arm he carried the flag of the extinguished navy.
"Mire! mire! señor. Ah, Dios! Already can I hear that great bear of an Oestreicher shout, 'Du hast mein herz gebrochen!' Mire! Of my friend, Herr Grunitz, of Vienna, you have heard me relate. That man has travelled to Ceylon for an orchid—to Patagonia for a headdress—to Benares for a slipper—to Mozambique for a spearhead to add to his famous collections. Thou knowest, also, amigo Rafael, that I have been a gatherer of curios. My collection of battle flags of the world's navies was the most complete in existence until last year. Then Herr Grunitz secured two, O! such rare specimens114. One of a Barbary state, and one of the Makarooroos, a tribe on the west coast of Africa. I have not those, but they can be procured115. But this flag, señor—do you know what it is? Name of God! do you know? See that red cross upon the blue and white ground! You never saw it before? Seguramente no. It is the naval116 flag of your country. Mire! This rotten tub we stand upon is its navy—that dead cockatoo lying there was its commander—that stroke of cutlass and single pistol shot a sea battle. All a piece of absurd foolery, I grant you—but authentic117. There has never been another flag like this, and there never will be another. No. It is unique in the whole world. Yes. Think of what that means to a collector of flags! Do you know, Coronel mio, how many golden crowns Herr Grunitz would give for this flag? Ten thousand, likely. Well, a hundred thousand would not buy it. Beautiful flag! Only flag! Little devil of a most heaven-born flag! O-hé! old grumbler118 beyond the ocean. Wait till Don Sabas comes again to the Königin Strasse. He will let you kneel and touch the folds of it with one finger. O-hé! old spectacled ransacker119 of the world!"
Forgotten was the impotent revolution, the danger, the loss, the gall120 of defeat. Possessed121 solely122 by the inordinate123 and unparalleled passion of the collector, he strode up and down the little deck, clasping to his breast with one hand the paragon124 of a flag. He snapped his fingers triumphantly125 toward the east. He shouted the paean126 to his prize in trumpet127 tones, as though he would make old Grunitz hear in his musty den18 beyond the sea.
They were waiting, on the Salvador, to welcome them. The sloop came close alongside the steamer where her sides were sliced almost to the lower deck for the loading of fruit. The sailors of the Salvador grappled and held her there.
Captain McLeod leaned over the side.
"The jig is up?" Don Sabas looked perplexed129 for a moment. "That revolution—ah, yes!" With a shrug130 of his shoulders he dismissed the matter.
The captain learned of the escape and the imprisoned131 crew.
"Caribs?" he said; "no harm in them." He slipped down into the sloop and kicked loose the hasp of the hatch. The black fellows came tumbling up, sweating but grinning.
"Hey! black boys!" said the captain, in a dialect of his own; "you sabe, catchy132 boat and vamos back same place quick."
They saw him point to themselves, the sloop and Coralio. "Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.
The four—Don Sabas, the two officers and the captain—moved to quit the sloop. Don Sabas lagged a little behind, looking at the still form of the late admiral, sprawled133 in his paltry134 trappings.
"Pobrecito loco," he said softly.
He was a brilliant cosmopolite and a cognoscente of high rank; but, after all, he was of the same race and blood and instinct as this people. Even as the simple paisanos of Coralio had said it, so said Don Sabas. Without a smile, he looked, and said, "The poor little crazed one!"
Stooping he raised the limp shoulders, drew the priceless and induplicable flag under them and over the breast, pinning it there with the diamond star of the Order of San Carlos that he took from the collar of his own coat.
He followed after the others, and stood with them upon the deck of the Salvador. The sailors that steadied El Nacional shoved her off. The jabbering135 Caribs hauled away at the rigging; the sloop headed for the shore.
And Herr Grunitz's collection of naval flags was still the finest in the world.
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