es. You made a good stand, but they made a better one, and they
have beaten us. Mendoza's coup d'etat has passed into history, and the
revolution is at an end."

On his arrival Clay had at once asked for a cigar, and while Mr.
Langham was speaking he had been biting it between his teeth, with the
serious satisfaction of a man who had been twelve hours without one.
He knocked the ashes from it and considered the burning end
thoughtfully. Then he glanced at Hope as she stood among the group on
the veranda. She was waiting for his reply and watching him intently.
He seemed to be confident that she would approve of the only course he
saw open to him.

"The revolution is not at an end by any means, Mr. Langham," he said at
last, simply. "It has just begun." He turned abruptly and walked away
in the direction of the office, and MacWilliams and Langham stepped off
the veranda and followed him as a matter of course.

The soldiers in the army who were known to be faithful to General Rojas
belonged to the Third and Fourth regiments, and numbered four thousand
on paper, and two thousand by count of heads. When they had seen their
leader taken prisoner, and swept off the parade-ground by Mendoza's
cavalry, they had first attempted to follow in pursuit and recapture
him, but the men on horseback had at once shaken off the men on foot
and left them, panting and breathless, in the dust behind them. So
they halted uncertainly in the road, and their young officers held
counsel together. They first considered the advisability of attacking
the military prison, but decided against doing so, as it would lead,
they feared, whether it proved successful or not, to the murder of
Rojas. It was impossible to return to the city where Mendoza's First
and Second regiments greatly outnumbered them. Having no leader and no
headquarters, the officers marched the men to the hills above the city
and went into camp to await further developments.

Throughout the night they watched the illumination of the city and of
the boats in the harbor below them; they saw the flames bursting from
the homes of the members of Alvarez's Cabinet, and when the morning
broke they beheld the grounds of the Palace swarming with Mendoza's
troops, and the red and white barred flag of the revolution floating
over it. The news of the assassination of Alvarez and the fact that
Rojas had been spared for fear of the people, had been carried to them
early in the evening