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A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY.
"Halte!" came the useless command, since we were not moving. "Throw down your arms or we will fire," followed, also in Spanish.
Dan looked at me and I at him, and then both of us dropped our pistols. Seeing this, Wamba uttered a grunt of dissatisfaction, turned, and crawled like a snake out of sight into the bushes. In a moment more the Spanish soldiers had surrounded us.
