5/15 We may have to ride for our lives." "You are quite right, Senor Fortescue; so you may. I will see that you are well mounted, and I shall be delighted to take charge of your belongings until the patriots again, and for the last time, capture Caracas and drive those thrice-accursed Spaniards into the sea." Before we separated I invited Senor Carera to _almuerzo_ (the equivalent to the Continental second breakfast) on the following day. "But we shall have to be very cautious," he added. "The _posada_ is a Royalist house, and the _posadero_ (innkeeper) is hand and glove with the police. If we speak of the patriots at all, it must be only to abuse them.... |