. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . he orthodoxl^irate of fiction. He talked simply, in a thick voice,and exhibited a trying, nervous twitching of eye-brows and hands with every sentence. His keen,blas(1 eyes pierced one through; their glance was abso-lutely distrustful, and showed that he would suspecthis own brother. We talked of the reconcentrados,of war, and chiefly of the United States. He seemedsuspicions at my knowledge, and asked me sharply:How long have you been here? I equivocated,replying I had been in Havana but a few
. Under three flags in Cuba; a personal account of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war . he orthodoxl^irate of fiction. He talked simply, in a thick voice,and exhibited a trying, nervous twitching of eye-brows and hands with every sentence. His keen,blas(1 eyes pierced one through; their glance was abso-lutely distrustful, and showed that he would suspecthis own brother. We talked of the reconcentrados,of war, and chiefly of the United States. He seemedsuspicions at my knowledge, and asked me sharply:How long have you been here? I equivocated,replying I had been in Havana but a few weeks. The Americans, he thought, Avere encouraging theCubans Avith the ultimate hope of seizing the to the insurrection he declared that there werenot five hundred rebels in the west, — a statement Iknew to be false, — and said he would soon pass east-ward and destroy Garcia and the rebels there. Hebelieved Gomez dead, or a fugitive. In that case these poor reconcentrados can go backto their homes soon? I remarked interrogatively. Weyler lifted his eyebrows. Ah, but these Cuban80. ^ § qo I Meet Weyler women have borne rebel sons and will encouragethem, was his significant replj. Then, General, what of their future? Must allstarve? These people are but eating the fruit of the treethey sowed, he said. I am here to crush therebels, others must see to the resettlement of is war. I meet war with war. I have done asSherman did. The distress is bad, but the measurenecessary. The rebels will not fight us openly, andas it is difQcult to quell them by bullets, we muststarve them out. It is their own doing. They couldsurrender and end the war, and save their wives andchildren, but they persist in combating Spain, andthis is the result. What of the families of our sol-diers killed in the war? That was the only excuse I ever heard the generalmake for holding as hostages and starving 500,000innocent women and children. A Cuban lady in deep black approached, and was
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