The Americans had evidently been expecting this useless bombast, and ere the words were well uttered, they answered them with a yell of defiance.

I do not think more than one proclamation was necessary, but Morello went from point to point in the city and the Americans followed him.

I can tell you this, Maria: all the millions in Mexico can not take their rifles from the ten thousand Americans in Texas, able to carry them." "We shall see! We shall see! But, Roberto, you at least will not interfere in their quarrels.

You have never done so hitherto." "No one has ever proposed to disarm me before, Maria.

I tell you frankly, I will not give up a single rifle, or revolver, or weapon of any kind, that I possess.