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would be repulsed at San Vicente ; Morazan would 

 take Guatimala. He urged me to wait ; he had his 

 preparations all made, his horses ready, and, on the first 

 notice of Morazan' s entry, intended to go up to Guati- 

 mala and establish that city once more as the capital. 

 But I was afraid of delay, and we parted to meet in 

 Guatimala ; but we never met again. A few days af- 

 terward he was flying for his life, and is now in exile, 

 under sentence of death if he returns ; the party that 

 rules Guatimala is heaping opprobrium upon his name ; 

 but in the recollection of my hurried tour I never for- 

 get him who had the unhappy distinction of being vice- 

 president of the Republic. 



I did not receive my passport till late in the evening, 

 and though I had given directions to the contrary, the 

 captain's name was inserted. We had already had a 

 difference of opinion in regard to our movements. He 

 was not so bent as I was upon pushing on to Guati- 

 mala, and besides, I did not consider it right, in an 

 official passport, to have the name of a partisan. Ac- 

 cordingly, early in the morning I went to the Govern- 

 ment House to have it altered. The separate passports 

 were just handed to me when I heard a clatter in the 

 streets, and fifteen or twenty horsemen galloped into 

 the courtyard, covered with sweat and dust, among 

 whom I recognised Colonel Hoyas, with his noble 

 horse, so broken that I did not know him. They had 

 ridden all night. The Honduras troops had taken San 

 Miguel and San Vicente, and were then marching upon 

 San Salvador. If not repulsed at Cojutepeque, that 

 day they would be upon the capital. For four days 

 I had been running before these troops, and now, by a 

 strange caprice, at the prospect of actual collision, I re- 

 gretted that my arrangements were so far advanced, 



