But all his wealth has not prevented his miners leaving him to answer the call of the insurrecto cause.
Below them, and some distance ahead, could be seen the twinkling lights of the village Jack had noticed the night before, while on their right hands gleamed the firefly-like lights of the insurrecto camp.
Once or twice, Jack, looking up from his peppery stew, noticed one or another of the insurrectoofficers eyeing either himself or his companions curiously.
The famous insurrecto leader raised his hat with Mexican courtesy as the newcomers approached.
The gross injustice of the idea made him flush hotly, but he was far too wise to expose his hand to the wily old insurrecto leader, who was watching them with an eager look on his withered, yellow face.
Breakfast in the insurrectocamp was a peculiar meal.
Of Madero there was no sign, unless a small figure on a shaggy pony, far to the rear, was that of the insurrecto leader.
Perhaps he had reason to fear that to do so would be to bring the anger of General Madero upon him, for he was now apparently posing as a patriot and an active insurrecto agent.
In color, the insurrecto leader's followers ranged from a delicate cream to a dark, reddish-brown, almost the coppery hue of a red Indian.
The stolen insurrecto horses galloped off into the hills, snorting with terror, as the car began to move.
Pontevedra was supposed to be an insurrecto town, thirsting for American gore.
And in full sight of both on the top of a precipice, an insurrecto flag flaunted its impertinent message.
I talked with the insurrecto and found him a man of ability.
The Captain said that Salas made his headquarters in a certain pueblo, and often word was brought that the insurrectowould be found there on a certain day.
The system of voluntary contributions, carried on during the insurrecto period, was continued after establishment of civil government.
It has already been made clear that, during the time of the insurrection against both the Spaniards and Americans, the insurrectoforces were maintained by voluntary contributions of the people.
It was O'Reilly who had given the boy his nickname--a name prompted by a marked eccentricity, for although Jacket possessed the two garments which constituted the ordinary Insurrecto uniform, he made a practice of wearing only one.
Strange to relate, there came a gale of wind that not only blew them out into a wider channel beyond the reach of their insurrecto friends, but put them well on their way.
The insurrecto captain told me himself that he never was so surprised, mortified, and grieved that such a thing could have been done.
Just tie a knot in this: if Harrison reaches the insurrectocamp with yore sister, she'll come back as his wife--or not at all.
The insurrecto chief, sprawling in the moonlight with his back against the table, nodded decisively.
There was a body of insurrecto troops encamped at Megano rancho, a mile from the beach, and they would have a barge and small boats in readiness to lighter the cargo.
This man would be the supercargo and the confidential envoy of the insurrecto junta in Los Angeles.
This agent of the insurrecto forces would pay him the balance of five thousand dollars due him immediately upon discharge of the cargo at Descanso Bay.
Often the trail led into the bosom of the hills and regretfully they had to stop before the probability of disappearing into an insurrecto stronghold.
There was some rumour of the presence of an Insurrecto camp near the pueblo somewhere.
On the third day they located the camp; travelling sinuously along a trace of trail they saw at last, through the bamboo thicket, the pointed roof of the Insurrecto cuartel--a nipa hut in the centre of a clearing.
