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Cable Company are in the same building as the Porvenir,the mob, which has thrown my presses out of the windowand scattered the type all over the Plaza, has been kept frominterfering with the instruments on the other side of thecourtyard. As I sat talking with Nostromo, Bernhardt, thetelegraphist, came out from under the Arcades with a pieceof paper in his hand. The little man had tied himself up toan enormous sword and was hung all over with revolvers.He is ridiculous, but the bravest German of his size that evertapped the key of a Morse transmitter. He had received themessage from Cayta reporting the transports with Barrios’sarmy just entering the port, and ending with the words, ‘Thegreatest enthusiasm prevails.’ I walked off to drink somewater at the fountain, and I was shot at from the Alamedaby somebody hiding behind a tree. But I drank, and didn’tcare; with Barrios in Cayta and the great Cordillera betweenus and Montero’s victorious army I seemed, notwithstandingMessrs. Gamacho and Fuentes, to hold my new State inthe hollow of my hand. I was ready to sleep, but when I gotas far as the Casa Gould I found the patio full of woundedlaid out on straw. Lights were burning, and in that enclosedcourtyard on that hot night a faint odour of chloroform andblood hung about. At one end Doctor Monygham, the doctorof the mine, was dressing the wounds; at the other, nearthe stairs, Father Corbelan, kneeling, listened to the confessionof a dying Cargador. Mrs. Gould was walking aboutthrough these shambles with a large bottle in one hand anda lot of cotton wool in the other. She just looked at me andnever even winked. Her camerista was following her, also