Show ae X 5 fi I 1 r FA F A P ri 4 I 1 1 I 10 M el 11 fajr MI 4 ME 01 W As mi R i X 4 w il iel ZW W i evini TAM aa 11 ZEA r I 1 7 x 7 1 7 ao 70 19 y Z if fi 1 I 1 I 1 M 1 I 1 ASCO AND MISS rivas I 1 4 V GRIT CRIT I 1 1 clr partner fanner ilaa the he capacity to t e b an AnT tamm tanea and tha latter gained the sobriquet of X garcias Gar cUt I 1 SD special ectal letter p N a discussion on the military qualities of the modern spaniards marshal I 1 soult evaded a def enite verdict by the I 1 remark that umes umea d of danger appear to evolve heroes in I 1 I 1 france and heroines in spain 8 span p a u lah lab america however can combine the two claims and some of the fair countrywomen countrywoman country women of general gomez would not be afraid to emulate the maid of saragossa or even the cherokee squaw who liberated her lover by climbing the stockade of a georgia mountain tort fort under cover of darkness juana rivas garcias weasel as the insurgents called her entered the fortifications of holguin in broad daylight in a cart load of fodder that had been halting at the roadside while the foragers for agers were indulging in a noontime nap but how bow did you get out again an american trader asked her oh theres no difficulty about that said she because you can watch the sentries I 1 crawled into a patch of weeds when the moon rose and waited waited till the soldier on guard was at the further end of his beat beal then I 1 used my short handsaw and cut dawn a little littie tree just long enough to make a good climbing staff I 1 knew about the depth of the ditches from what I 1 had seen in daylight and the next time the sentry had bad strolled out of sight I 1 jumped down in the trenches and was up on the other side before he could get half way back he did not bear me im sure and I 1 suppose t they never knew what had happened till they found the pole the next morning she had been wandering about the town all day in the guise of a begging storing her memory with data on the location of the main forts the number of guns and the probable strength of the garrison besides sounding the sentiments of the civilians and the hag gard looking conscripts that had been dragged from their homes in the span sh ish Sl sierras erras her employer gen hernan garcia often assigned her to pioneer duty as a guide of his vanguard and just laughed at the report of an orderly who brought him word that miss rivas had warned his scouts to fall back and then deserted to the enemy ashes gone ahead on some errand that cannot be deputed to every lubber said he and took it as a matter of course when his weasel did slip back the next night with a bit of news that changed the main plan of his campaign mrs susa or jesusa velasco took even greater risks in crossing the tro chas to warn her husband against a projected surprise surprise of his camp the spaniards had sequestered her in manzanillo with some other suspects one of whom had found a job in the kitchen of the post quartermaster and ascertained the objective point of the next mountain raid in order to accomplish com her purpose mrs velasco hadbo had to cross the dead line of the close ly guarded town and then make her way across rivers and mountains to the highlands of where her husband domm commanded the forage company of an in trenched rebel camp it was at the end of summer when berries are scarce but the spaniards had trained her in an effective school of abstinence and excitement nt made her fatigue proof till she reached the uplands where she could venture to approach a herders gerders her ders cabin now and then to ask tor for a mouthful of food her shoes were in shreds when she reached the camp the fifteenth day after her flight from mannillo man nillo and her chief anxiety was removed when she learned that her husband had just finished a successful foray and was expected to I 1 ar nt I 1 I 1 t I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 e e ie creates he ceilia ald turn tum piar 4 at afie 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plunging into a reed thicket and taking his risk of perishing in the quicksand drifts he reached the an hour after midnight and before morning two thirds of the missing foragers for agers returned some even with a few scraps of provisions they had procured in a log cutters camp mrs MM velasco had been less fortunate the spanish scouts cut off her retreat to the river and after a chase of two hours haars she was surrounded in a cancho forest and captured with halt half a dozen of her husbands troopers their captors put them in charge of the pick pack horses and made them keep ahead till they reached a terry ferry house where their commander had bad stopped for dinner that officer a south span lard of the better class ordered them to take their captives to st catalina Cata llna and shoot them only it if they should attempt escape but not shoot the woman under any circumstances mrs velasco took the hint bint and the next time they crof crossed sed a deep bayou slipped off her horse and tried to swim to a timber island but was recaptured and kicked about in a manner that made her suspect the scouts were trying to kill her without the waste ot of gunpowder they finally tied her hands on her back and hung her on her horse like a bundle ot of bags and thus continued their journey to Carco bano where they forced her to swallow a of soaked biscuits and syrup and then rung flung her into a little comshick com corn shuck shed with her hands still tied and secured the door with a couple of logs the scouts around the corral that the shed and one I 1 I 1 Z 1 11 1 r 7 I 1 I 1 I 1 i JUANA RIVAS watch fire was only ten steps from the barricaded barricades barrica ded door but when they removed the obstruction the next morning they found that the prisoner had disappeared shreds of the cord that seemed to have been gnawed or scraped to pieces were scattered about the floor and an excavation near the opposite corner proved that the desperado des rada had effected her escape by digging like a dog under one of the bottom planks |