"What is the matter, Peter?"
"Don Francisco has shot himself! Don Miguel has just told me."
Philip made a gesture of horror, and Jack ran into the house to see Maraquando, and learn the particulars of the case.
It was perfectly true. Unable to bear the disgrace of being deposed from the active conduct of affairs, President Gomez had retired to his room, and shot himself through the heart.
CHAPTER V.
THE INDIAN RAID.
Painted braves came on the war-path,
Numerous as the leaves in summer,
Decked with feathers and with wampum,
All their faces fierce and fearless,
Streaked with colours like the sunset,