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could unsettle the public opinion in the capital was to beavoided. Don Jose bowed to these arguments and tried todismiss from his mind the gold-laced portent in boots, andwith a sabre, made meaningless now at last, he hoped, in thenew order of things.Less than six months after the President-Dictator’s visit,Sulaco learned with stupefaction of the military revoltin the name of national honour. The Minister of War, ina barrack-square allocution to the officers of the artilleryregiment he had been inspecting, had declared the nationalhonour sold to foreigners. The Dictator, by his weak compliancewith the demands of the European powers—for thesettlement of long outstanding money claims—had showedhimself unfit to rule. A letter from Moraga explained afterwardsthat the initiative, and even the very text, of theincendiary allocution came, in reality, from the other Montero,the ex-guerillero, the Commandante de Plaza. Theenergetic treatment of Dr. Monygham, sent for in haste ‘tothe mountain,’ who came galloping three leagues in thedark, saved Don Jose from a dangerous attack of jaundice.After getting over the shock, Don Jose refused to let himselfbe prostrated. Indeed, better news succeeded at first.The revolt in the capital had been suppressed after a nightof fighting in the streets. Unfortunately, both the Monteroshad been able to make their escape south, to their nativeprovince of Entre-Montes. The hero of the forest march,the victor of Rio Seco, had been received with frenzied acclamationsin Nicoya, the provincial capital. The troops ingarrison there had gone to him in a body. The brothers were