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"-Mv troops enfiladed, left-faced, and left
the spot. After enticing the enemy for three
miles or so we struck a brier-patch and had
to sit down. When we were ordered to
throw up our toes and surrender we o0eeyed.
fiie of mny best staff-oficers fell, suffering
extremely with stone-bruised heels.
"Then and there those ('olomlbians took
tyour friend Btarnev, sir, stripped him of the
insignia of his rank. consisting of a pair of
brass knuckles and a canteen of rum, and
dragged him before a military court. The
residing general went thrO mgh the usual legal
inmalities that sometimes cause a case to
n: on the calendar of a South American
in:illry court as long as ten minutes. lHe
:kcd me my age, and then sentenced me to
b! silt.
'lThey woke up the court interpreter, an
\inericain named J enks, who was in the rum
Misiness and ivr an vice versa, and told him to
translate the verdict.
"Jenks stretchedd himself and took a mor-
phine talblet.
.'You've got to back up against the 'dobe,
Ili man,' says he to me. 'lThree weeks. I
believe. tu get. Haven't got a chew of fine-
t (in Byou. have yolu?'
Tl ra ,-1, +, t a gain, with foot-n te s and
a glossary,' says I. ' don't knwN whether
I'm discharged, condmncd, or handed over
to the (CIry Societv.'
" '()h,' says J enks, ' don't ol tiunt lerstand ?
You're to be stood up against a 'dobe wall
and shot in two or three weeks-three, I
think, they said.'
" 'Would you mind asking 'cm which?'
says I. 'A week don't amount to much after
you are dead, but it seems a real nice long
spell while you are alive.'
1'It's two weeks,' says the intcrlreter, after
inquiring in Spanish of the court. 'Shall I
ask 'em again?'
Sc'Let be,' says I. et's have a station-
ary verdict. If I keep on appealing this wav
they'll have me shot about ten days before I
was captured. No, I haven't got any fine-
cut.'
"l'hev sends me over to the ca/rabor with
a detachment of colored postal-telegraph
boys carrying Enfield rifles, and 1 am locked
up in a kind of brick akery. The tempera-
ture in there was just about the kind men-
tioned in the cooking recipes that call for a
'quick oven.'
-I"Then I gives a silver dollar tot one of the
guards to send for the United States consul.
He comes around in pajamas, Nwith a pair of
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