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"
My
name
is
Pinkney
Dawson
,
"
said
the
cornerer
of
the
cockleburr
market
.
Billy
Keogh
slid
rapturously
and
gently
from
his
chair
to
his
favourite
strip
of
matting
on
the
floor
.
There
were
not
many
sounds
in
Coralio
on
that
sultry
afternoon
Among
those
that
were
may
be
mentioned
a
noise
of
enraptured
and
unrighteous
laughter
from
a
prostrate
Irish
--
American
,
while
a
sunburned
young
man
,
with
a
shrewd
eye
,
looked
on
him
with
wonder
and
amazement
.
Also
the
"
tramp
,
tramp
,
tramp
"
of
many
well-shod
feet
in
the
streets
outside
.
Also
the
lonesome
wash
of
the
waves
that
beat
along
the
historic
shores
of
the
Spanish
Main
.
A
two-inch
stub
of
a
blue
pencil
was
the
wand
with
which
Keogh
performed
the
preliminary
acts
of
his
magic
.
So
,
with
this
he
covered
paper
with
diagrams
and
figures
while
he
waited
for
the
United
States
of
America
to
send
down
to
Coralio
a
successor
to
Atwood
,
resigned
.
The
new
scheme
that
his
mind
had
conceived
,
his
stout
heart
indorsed
,
and
his
blue
pencil
corroborated
,
was
laid
around
the
characteristics
and
human
frailties
of
the
new
president
of
Anchuria
.
These
characteristics
,
and
the
situation
out
of
which
Keogh
hoped
to
wrest
a
golden
tribute
,
deserve
chronicling
contributive
to
the
clear
order
of
events
.
President
Losada
--
many
called
him
Dictator
--
was
a
man
whose
genius
would
have
made
him
conspicuous
even
among
Anglo
--
Saxons
,
had
not
that
genius
been
intermixed
with
other
traits
that
were
petty
and
subversive
.
He
had
some
of
the
lofty
patriotism
of
Washington
(
the
man
he
most
admired
)
,
the
force
of
Napoleon
,
and
much
of
the
wisdom
of
the
sages
.
These
characteristics
might
have
justified
him
in
the
assumption
of
the
title
of
"
The
Illustrious
Liberator
,
"
had
they
not
been
accompanied
by
a
stupendous
and
amazing
vanity
that
kept
him
in
the
less
worthy
ranks
of
the
dictators
.
Yet
he
did
his
country
great
service
.
With
a
mighty
grasp
he
shook
it
nearly
free
from
the
shackles
of
ignorance
and
sloth
and
the
vermin
that
fed
upon
it
,
and
all
but
made
it
a
power
in
the
council
of
nations
.
He
established
schools
and
hospitals
,
built
roads
,
bridges
,
railroads
and
palaces
,
and
bestowed
generous
subsidies
upon
the
arts
and
sciences
.
He
was
the
absolute
despot
and
the
idol
of
his
people
.
The
wealth
of
the
country
poured
into
his
hands
.
Other
presidents
had
been
rapacious
without
reason
.
Losada
amassed
enormous
wealth
,
but
his
people
had
their
share
of
the
benefits
.
The
joint
in
his
armour
was
his
insatiate
passion
for
monuments
and
tokens
commemorating
his
glory
.
In
every
town
he
caused
to
be
erected
statues
of
himself
bearing
legends
in
praise
of
his
greatness
.
In
the
walls
of
every
public
edifice
,
tablets
were
fixed
reciting
his
splendour
and
the
gratitude
of
his
subjects
.
His
statuettes
and
portraits
were
scattered
throughout
the
land
in
every
house
and
hut
.
One
of
the
sycophants
in
his
court
painted
him
as
St.
John
,
with
a
halo
and
a
train
of
attendants
in
full
uniform
.
Losada
saw
nothing
incongruous
in
this
picture
,
and
had
it
hung
in
a
church
in
the
capital
.
He
ordered
from
a
French
sculptor
a
marble
group
including
himself
with
Napoleon
,
Alexander
the
Great
,
and
one
or
two
others
whom
he
deemed
worthy
of
the
honour
.
