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Kings and cabbage
They
will
tell
you
in
Anchuria
,
that
President
Miraflores
,
of
that
volatile
republic
,
died
by
his
own
hand
in
the
coast
town
of
Coralio
;
that
he
had
reached
thus
far
in
flight
from
the
inconveniences
of
an
imminent
revolution
;
and
that
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
government
funds
,
which
he
carried
with
him
in
an
American
leather
valise
as
a
souvenir
of
his
tempestuous
administration
,
was
never
afterward
recovered
.
For
a
real
,
a
boy
will
show
you
his
grave
.
It
is
back
of
the
town
near
a
little
bridge
that
spans
a
mangrove
swamp
.
A
plain
slab
of
wood
stands
at
its
head
.
Some
one
has
burned
upon
the
headstone
with
a
hot
iron
this
inscription
:
RAMON
ANGEL
DE
LAS
CRUZES
Y
MIRAFLORES
PRESIDENTE
DE
LA
REPUBLICA
DE
ANCHURIA
QUE
SEA
SU
JUEZ
DIOS
It
is
characteristic
of
this
buoyant
people
that
they
pursue
no
man
beyond
the
grave
.
"
Let
God
be
his
judge
!
"
--
Even
with
the
hundred
thousand
unfound
,
though
greatly
coveted
,
the
hue
and
cry
went
no
further
than
that
.
To
the
stranger
or
the
guest
the
people
of
Coralio
will
relate
the
story
of
the
tragic
end
of
their
former
president
;
how
he
strove
to
escape
from
the
country
with
the
public
funds
and
also
with
Doña
Isabel
Guilbert
,
the
young
American
opera
singer
;
and
how
,
being
apprehended
by
members
of
the
opposing
political
party
in
Coralio
,
he
shot
himself
through
the
head
rather
than
give
up
the
funds
,
and
,
in
consequence
,
the
Señorita
Guilbert
.
They
will
relate
further
that
Doña
Isabel
,
her
adventurous
bark
of
fortune
shoaled
by
the
simultaneous
loss
of
her
distinguished
admirer
and
the
souvenir
hundred
thousand
,
dropped
anchor
on
this
stagnant
coast
,
awaiting
a
rising
tide
.
