Five minutes later, and Hozier might have seized the presidency himself.
And now, as to the night, and the next day.
Russo and his diminished staff took Philip's little army as a nucleus.
Brazil had duly elected Dom Corria, as provided by the statute, and the news spread like wild fire.

Before morning, the Liberationists were ten thousand strong.

Before night closed the roads again, the Pesqueira genius wrote to Dom Corria under a flag of truce, and pointed out that he served the _President_, not any crank who said he was President, but the honored individual in whom the people of Brazil placed their trust.

Dom Corria replied in felicitous terms, and, as the newspapers say, the incident ended.

The navy sulked for a while, because they held that Russo's treatment of the _Andorinha_ was not cricket, or baseball, or whatsoever game appeals most to the Brazilian sportsman.