ver--"A Cold
Water Cure"--Hot on the Trail--Not in the Fort--A Fruitless
Hunt--Many Innocents Arrested--Maloy Becomes a "Know-Nothing." 261
CHAPTER XXVII.
A Marriage at the American Embassy in Paris--Anxious Moments
at Versailles--Off for Spain--Crossing the Pyrenees--Gunshots--Train
off the Track--Captured by Carlist Bandits--Released--Through
the Pass on Ox Carts--A Mountain Blizzard--Camp
in a Snowstorm--Mutiny--A Morning Dream. 275
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A Carlist Officer--A Picturesque Caravan--Arrival at Burgos--Startling
Telegrams--Revolution at Madrid--The Railway
Seized--My Party in a Trap--Madrid Cathedral and a Bull
Fight--A Special Train Proves a Slow Train--No News Good
News. 292
CHAPTER XXIX.
Arrival in Santander--Gloomy Forebodings--Sail for Cuba--Watch
the Pyrenees Sink in the Sea--Two Sisters of Charity, Innocents
on a Voyage--Circus at St. Thomas--Sunset Gun in Havana--Thirty
Seconds Change My Destiny. 301
CHAPTER XXX.
Slavery in Cuba--Life in Havana--The Million-Pound Forgery
Discovered--My Opinion Asked--Trip to the Isle of Pines--The
Cuban Rebels--A Battle Field--A Slave Cook--The Missionary
and the Cannibal--Going into the Interior. 312
CHAPTER XXXI.
On the Caribbean--A Motley Cargo--Turning Turtles and Shark
Fishing--A Dinner Party in Havana Proves a Surprise Party--Capt.
John Curtin of the Pinkertons Appears on the Scene--Consternation
Among the Diners--Offer the Captain $50,000 for
Ten Minutes' Start--No--I Shoot Him--Struggle and Capture--In
the Arsenal. 327
CHAPTER XXXII.
Friendly Spanish Officials--Plots to Escape--Leap for Liberty--Escape
out of Havana--Travel the Beach Nights--Refuge in
the Jungle Days--Construct a Raft--Food and Water Gone,
but Pluck at the Fore--I Will Join the Rebels And Win Military
Laurels--Man Proposes, but---- 338
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Creeping Across a Bridge--Sentries Discover Me--They Challenge:
"Quien Va?"--They Fire--Flight and Escape on the Raft--A
Tropical Night Swim--Sharks Everywhere--Knife Between My
Teeth--Regain the Shore--Nearing the Rebel Camp--The Black
Soldiers Surprise and Capture Me--I Strike
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