Evidences of the war increased as the journey lengthened7. The potreros were lush with grass, but no herds8 grazed upon them; villages were deserted9 and guano huts were falling into decay, charred10 fields growing up to weeds and the ruins of vast centrales showing where the Insurrectos had been at work. This was the sugar country, the heart of Cuba, whence Spain had long drawn11 her life blood, and from the first it had been the policy of the rebel leaders to destroy the large estates, leaving undamaged only the holdings of those little farmers whose loyalty12 to the cause of freedom was unquestioned.
Food became a problem immediately after the travelers had crossed the trocha. Such apprehensive13 families as still lurked14 in the woods were liberal enough—Antonio, by the way, knew all of them—but they had little to give and, in consequence, O'Reilly's party learned the taste of wild fruits, berries, and palmetto hearts. Once they managed to kill a small pig, the sole survivor15 of some obscure country tragedy, but the rest of the time their meat, when there was any, consisted of iguanas—those big, repulsive16 lizards17—and jutias, the Cuban field-rats.
Neither the lizards nor the rats were quite as bad as they looked or sounded; the meat of the former was tender and white, while the latter, although strong, was not unpalatable. To hungry men both were muy sabrosa, as Jacket put it. This was not the boy's first experience with such a diet; having campaigned before in the west, he was accustomed to the taste of juita, and he told O'Reilly how his troop had once lived so long upon these rats that it became impossible to surprise a Spanish enemy, except by approaching up the wind, as a hunter stalks his game. Jacket gravely assured his friend that the Spaniards could smell him and his brother patriots18 from a distance of five kilometers—a statement, by the way, which the American by this time was ready to believe.
Fortunately there was no shortage of food for the horses, and so, despite the necessity of numerous detours19, the party made good time. They crossed into Matanzas, pushed on over rolling hills, through sweeping20 savannas21, past empty clearings and deserted villages, to their journey's end. A fortunate encounter with a rebel partida from General Betancourt's army enabled them to reach headquarters without loss of time, and one afternoon, worn, ragged22 and hungry, they dismounted in front of that gallant23 officer's hut.
General Betancourt read the letter which O'Reilly handed him, then looked up with a smile.
"So! You are one of Gomez's Americans, eh? Well, I would never have known it, to look at you; the sun and the wind have made you into a very good Cuban. And your clothes—One might almost mistake you for a Cuban cabinet officer."
O'Reilly joined in the laughter evoked24 by this remark. He was quite as tattered25 as the poorest of Betancourt's common soldiers; his shoes were broken and disreputable; his cotton trousers, snagged by barbed wire and brambles, and soiled by days in the saddle and nights in the grass, were in desperate need of attention. His beard had grown, too, and his skin, where it was exposed, was burnt to a mahogany brown. Certainly there was nothing about his appearance to bespeak26 his nationality.
The general continued: "I am directed in this letter to help you in some enterprise. Command me, sir."
As briefly27 as possible Johnnie made known the object of his journey. The officer nodded his comprehension, but as he did so a puzzled expression crossed his face.
"Yes, I reported that Miss Varona had gone into the city—I took some pains to find out. Do you have reason to doubt—"
"Not the least, sir."
"Then—why have you come all this way?"
"I came to find her and to fetch her to her brother."
"But—you don't understand. She is actually inside the lines, in
Matanzas—a prisoner."
"Exactly. I intend to go into Matanzas and bring her out."
General Betancourt drew back, astonished. "My dear man!" he exclaimed.
"Are you mad?"
O'Reilly smiled faintly. "Quite probably. All lovers are mildly mad, I believe."
"Ah! Lovers! I begin to see. But—how do you mean to go about this—this—impossible undertaking28?"
"You told me just now that I could pass for a Cuban. Well, I am going to put it to the test. If I once get into the city I shall manage somehow to get out again, and bring her with me."
"Um-m!" The general appraised29 O'Reilly speculatively30. "No doubt you can get in—it is not so difficult to enter, I believe, and especially to one who speaks the language like a native. But the return—I fear you will find that another matter. Matanzas is a place of pestilence31, hunger, despair. No one goes there from choice any more, and no one ever comes out."
"So I should imagine." The speaker's careless tone added to General Betancourt's astonishment32. "Bless me!" he exclaimed. "What an extraordinary young man! Is it possible that you do not comprehend the terrible conditions?" A sudden thought struck him and he inquired, quickly: "Tell me, you are not by any chance that hero they call El Demonio? I have heard that he is indeed a demon33. No? Very well! You say you wish to visit Matanzas, and I am instructed to help you. How can I do so?"
O'Reilly hesitated an instant. "For one thing, I need money. I—I haven't a single peseta."
"You are welcome to the few dollars I possess."
Johnnie expressed his gratitude34 for this ready assistance. "One thing more," said he. "Will you give my boy, Jacket, a new pair of trousers and send him back to the Orient at the first opportunity?"
"Of course. It is done." The general laid a friendly hand upon O'Reilly's shoulder, saying, gravely: "It would relieve me intensely to send you back with him, for I have fears for the success of your venture. Matanzas is a hell; it has swallowed up thousands of our good countrymen; thousands have died there. I'm afraid you do not realize what risks you are taking."
O'Reilly did not allow this well-meant warning to influence him, nor did he listen to the admonitions of those other Cubans who tried to argue him out of his purpose, once it became generally known. On the contrary, he proceeded with his preparations and spent that afternoon in satisfying himself that Rosa had indeed left the Pan de Matanzas before Cobo's raid.
Among Betancourt's troops was a man who had been living in the hills at the time Asensio and his family had abandoned their struggle for existence, and to him O'Reilly went. This fellow, it seemed, had remained with his family in the mountains some time after Asensio's departure. It was from him that O'Reilly heard his first authentic35 report of the atrocities36 perpetrated by Cobo's Volunteers. This man had lost his wife, his little son, and all the scanty37 belongings38 he possessed39. With shaking hands upstretched to heaven, the fellow cursed the author of his misfortunes.
"I live for one thing!" he cried, shrilly40. "To meet that monster, and to butcher him, as he butchers women and children."
O'Reilly purposely left his most unpleasant task to the last. When his arrangements had been completed and he had acquainted himself as far as possible with the hazards he was likely to encounter, he took Jacket aside and broke the news to him that on the following morning they must part. As he had expected, the boy refused to listen to him. O'Reilly remained firm and Jacket adopted those tactics which had proved so potent42 with General Gomez. He began to weep copiously43. He worked himself up to a hysterical44 crescendo45 which threatened to arouse the entire encampment. But O'Reilly was unmoved.
"Be quiet," he told the boy. "I won't let you go with me, and that ends it."
"It will be hard enough for one man to slip through; two would be sure to fail."
"So much the more reason for you to stay here."
At this the boy uttered a louder cry. He stamped his bare feet in a frenzy48 of disappointment. "You dassent leave me—you dassent!"
"Listen, people are starving in Matanzas; they are sick; they are dying in the streets."
"I don't eat much."
When Johnnie shook his head stubbornly Jacket launched himself into a torrent49 of profanity the violence of which dried his tears. His vocabulary was surprising. He reviled50 the Spaniards, O'Reilly, himself, everybody and everything; he leveled anathemas51 at that woman who had come between him and his beloved benefactor52. The latter listened good-naturedly.
"You're a tough kid," he laughed, when Jacket's first rage had worn itself out. "I like you, and I'd take you if I could. But this isn't an enterprise for a boy, and it won't get you anything to keep up this racket."
Jacket next tried the power of argument. He attempted to prove that in a hazardous53 undertaking of this sort his assistance would be invaluable54. He was, so he declared, the one person in all Cuba in every respect qualified55 to share O'Reilly's perils56. To begin with, he was not afraid of Spaniards, or anything else, for that matter—he dismissed the subject of personal courage with a contemptuous shrug57. As for cunning, sagacity, prudence58, resource, all-around worth, he was, without doubt, unequaled in any country. He was a veritable Spartan59, too, when it came to hardship—privation and suffering were almost to his liking60. He was discreet—discretion was something he had inherited; he was a diplomat—diplomacy being one of his most unique accomplishments61. As for this talk about hunger, O'Reilly need not concern himself in the least on that score, for Jacket was a small eater and could grow fat on a diet of dead leaves. Disease? Bah! It made him laugh. His experience with sickness was wider than most fisicos, and he was a better nurse than Miss Evans would ever be. Jacket did not wish to appear in the least boastful. On the contrary, he was actually too modest, as his friends could attest62, but truth compelled him to admit that he was just the man for O'Reilly. He found it impossible to recommend himself too highly; to save his soul, he could think of no qualification in which he was lacking and could see no reason why his benefactor would not greatly profit by the free use of his amazing talents. The enterprise was difficult; it would certainly fail without him.
Johnnie remained carefully attentive63 during this adjuration64. He felt no desire even to smile, for the boy's earnestness was touching65 and it caused the elder man's throat to tighten66 uncomfortably. Johnnie had not realized before how fond he had become of this quaint41 youngster. And so, when the little fellow paused hopefully, O'Reilly put an arm around him.
"I'm sure you are everything you say you are, Jacket, and more, too, but you can't go!"
With that Jacket flung off the embrace and, stalking away, seated himself. He took a half-smoked cigar from the pocket of his shirt and lit it, scowling67 the while at his friend. More than once during the evening O'Reilly detected his sullen69, angry eyes upon him.
General Betancourt and several members of his staff were up early the following morning to bid their visitor good-by. In spite of their efforts to make the parting cheerful it was plain that they had little hope of ever again seeing this foolhardy American.
Johnnie's spirits were not in the least affected70 by this ill-concealed pessimism71, for, as he told himself, he had money in his pockets and Matanzas was not many miles away. But when he came to part from Jacket he experienced a genuine disappointment. The boy, strangely enough, was almost indifferent to his leaving; he merely extended a limp and dirty hand, and replied to O'Reilly's parting words with a careless "Adios!"
In hurt surprise the former inquired, "Don't we part good friends?"
Jacket was a likable youngster; his devotion was thoroughly73 unselfish; it had not been easy to wound him. With keener regrets than he cared to acknowledge O'Reilly set out upon his journey, following the guide whom General Betancourt had provided.
It was a lovely morning, sufficiently74 warm to promise a hot midday; the air was moist and fresh from a recent shower. This being the rainy season, the trails were soft, and where the rich red Cuban soil was exposed the travelers sank into it as into wet putty.
Crossing a rocky ridge75, O'Reilly and his guide at last emerged upon an open slope, knee-high in grass and grown up to bottle-palms, those queer, distorted trees whose trunks are swollen76 into the likeness77 of earthen water-jars. Scattered78 here and there over the meadows were the dead or fallen trunks of another variety, the cabbage-palm, the green heart of which had long formed a staple79 article of diet for the Insurrectos. Spanish axes had been at work here and not a single tree remained alive. The green floor of the valley farther down was dotted with the other, the royal kind, that monarch80 of tropic vegetation which lends to the Cuban landscape its peculiar81 and distinctive82 beauty.
"Yonder is the camino," said the countryman, pointing into the valley; "it will lead you to the main road; and there"—he turned to the northward—"is Matanzas. Go with God, and don't drink the well water, which is polluted from the rains." With a smile and a wave of the hand the man turned back and plunged83 into the jungle.
As O'Reilly descended84 the slope he realized keenly that he was alone and in hostile territory. The hills and the woods from Pinar del Rio to Oriente were Cuban, or, at most, they were disputed ground. But here in the plains and valleys near the cities Spain was supreme85. From this moment on O'Reilly knew he must rely entirely86 upon himself. The success of his enterprise—his very life—hinged upon his caution, his powers of dissimulation87, his ability to pass as a harmless, helpless pacifico. It gave him an unaccustomed thrill, by no means pleasant.
The road, when he came to it, proved to be a deep gutter88 winding89 between red-clay banks cut by the high wheels of clumsy cane90-carts. Inasmuch as no crops whatever had been moved over the road during the past season, it was now little more than an oozy91, sticky rut. Not a roof, not a chimney, was in sight; the valley was deserted. Here was a fertile farming country—and yet no living thing, no sound of bells, no voices, no crowing cocks, no lowing cattle. It was depressing to O'Reilly, and more, for there was something menacing and threatening about it all.
Toward noon the breeze lessened92 and it became insufferably hot. A bank of clouds in the east promised a cooling shower, so Johnnie sought the nearest shade to wait for it, and took advantage of the delay to eat his slender lunch. He was meditatively94 munching95 a sweet-potato when a sound at his back caused him to leap to his feet in alarm. He whirled, then uttered an exclamation96 of amazement97. Seated not fifty feet away was a bare-legged boy, similarly engaged in eating a sweet-potato. It was Jacket. His brown cheeks were distended98, his bright, inquisitive99 eyes were fixed100 upon O'Reilly from beneath a defiant101 scowl68.
"Jacket!" cried the man. "What the devil are you doing here?"
"You goin' to let me come along?" challenged the intruder.
"So! You followed me, after I said I didn't want you?" O'Reilly spoke102 reproachfully; but reproaches had no effect upon the lad. With a mild expletive, Jacket signified his contempt for such a weak form of persuasion103.
"See here now." O'Reilly stepped closer. "Let's be sensible about this."
But Jacket scrambled104 to his feet and retreated warily105, stuffing the uneaten portion of the sweet-potato into his mouth. It was plain that he had no confidence in O'Reilly's intentions. Muttering something in a muffled106 voice, he armed himself with a stout107 stick.
"Come here," commanded the American.
Jacket shook his head. He made a painful attempt to swallow, and when his utterance108 became more distinct he consigned109 his idol110 to a warmer place than Cuba.
"I'm a tough kid," he declared. "Don't get gay on me."
The two parleyed briefly; then, when satisfied that no violence was intended him, the boy sat down to listen. But, as before, neither argument nor appeal had the slightest effect upon him. He denied that he had followed his benefactor; he declared that he was a free agent and at liberty to go where he willed. If it so chanced that his fancy took him to the city of Matanzas at the same time O'Reilly happened to be traveling thither111, the circumstance might be put down to the long arm of coincidence. If his company were distasteful to the elder man, O'Reilly was free to wait and follow later; it was a matter of complete indifference112 to Jacket. He had business in Matanzas and he proposed to attend to it. The boy lied gravely, unblushingly. Nevertheless, he kept a watchful113 eye upon his hearer.
"Very well," O'Reilly told him, finally. "I give in."
"By——! I get my own way, don't I?" he laughed.
"Indeed you do." O'Reilly laid a hand fondly upon his loyal follower115. "And I don't mind telling you that I'm more than half glad of it. I—I was getting lonesome. I didn't know how much I could miss you. But now we must make some plans, we must have an understanding and decide who we are. Let me see—your real name is Narciso—"
"Narciso Villar."
"Well, then, I shall be Juan Villar, your brother. Henceforth we shall speak nothing but Spanish. Tell me now, what was our father's name, where was our home, and what are we doing together?"
During the breathless interval117 before the shower the two sat with their heads together, talking earnestly. As the wind came and the cooling rain began to rattle118 on the leaves overhead they took up their bundles and set out. The big drops drenched119 them quickly. Their thin garments clung to them and water streamed down their bodies; overhead the sky was black and rent by vivid streaks120 of fire, but they plodded121 onward122 cheerfully.
Jacket was himself again; he bent123 his weight against the tempest and lengthened his short strides to O'Reilly's. He tried to whistle, but his teeth chattered124 and the wind interfered125, so he hummed a song, to drive the chill out of his bones and to hearten his benefactor. Now that he was at last accepted as a full partner in this enterprise, it became his duty not only to share its perils, but to lessen93 its hardships and to yield diversion.
The rain was cold, the briers beside the overgrown path were sharp, and they scratched the boy's bare legs cruelly; his stomach clamored for a companion to that solitary126 sweet-potato, too, but in his breast glowed ardor127 and pride. Jacket considered himself a fortunate person—a very fortunate person, indeed. Had he not found a brother, and did not that brother love him? There was no doubt about the latter, for O'Reilly's eyes, when he looked down, were kind and smiling, his voice was friendly and intimate. Here was a man to die for.
The downpour lasted but a short time, then the sun came out and dried the men's clothes; on the whole, it had been refreshing128. When evening came the Villar brothers sought refuge in an old sugar-mill, or rather in a part of it still standing116. They were on the main calzada, now, the paved road which links the two main cities of the island, and by the following noon their destination was in sight.
O'Reilly felt a sudden excitement when Matanzas came into view. From this distance the city looked quite as it did when he had left it, except that the blue harbor was almost empty of shipping129, while the familiar range of hills that hid the Yumuri—that valley of delight so closely linked in his thoughts with Rosa Varona—seemed to smile at him like an old friend. For the thousandth time he asked himself if he had come in time to find her, or if fate's maddening delays had proved his own and the girl's undoing130.
O'Reilly knew that although Matanzas was a prison and a pesthole, a girl like Rosa would suffer therein perils infinitely131 worse than imprisonment132 or disease. It was a thought he could not bear to dwell upon.
Signs of life began to appear now, the travelers passed small garden-patches and occasional cultivated fields; they encountered loaded carts bound into the city, and once they hid themselves while a column of mounted troops went by.
O'Reilly stopped to pass the time of day with a wrinkled cartman whose dejected oxen were resting.
"Going into the city, are you?" the fellow inquired. "Starved out, I suppose. Well, it's as pleasant to starve in one place as another."
Jacket helped himself to a stalk of cane from the load and began to strip it with his teeth.
"Will the soldiers allow us to enter?" Johnnie inquired.
"Of course. Why not?" The old man laughed mirthlessly; then his voice changed. "Go back," he said, "go back and die in the fields. Matanzas stinks133 of rotting corpses134. Go back where the air is clean." He swung his long lash3 over the oxen, they leaned against the load, and the cart creaked dismally135 on its way.
It is never difficult to enter a trap, and Matanzas was precisely136 that. There were soldiers everywhere, but beyond an indifferent challenge at the outer blockhouse, a perfunctory question or two, Narciso and Juan Villar experienced no trouble whatever in passing the lines. Discipline, never strict at best, was extremely lax at the brick fortinas along the roads, and, since these two refugees were too poor to warrant search, they were waved onward by the sentries137. They obeyed silently; in aimless bewilderment they shuffled138 along toward the heart of the city. Almost before they realized it they had run the gauntlet and had joined that army of misery139, fifteen thousand strong. The hand of Spain had closed over them.
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