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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico + +Author: Lewis Miller + +Release Date: October 31, 2010 [EBook #33898] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAUNTED SENTRY BOX *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div id="text-block"> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 392px;"> +<img src="images/frontis.jpg" width="392" height="600" alt="" title="" /> +<div class="caption">HAUNTED SENTRY BOX, SAN CRISTOBAL, SAN JUAN</div> +</div> + + +<h1>THE<br/> +HAUNTED SENTRY BOX<br/> +<small style="font-size: 0.7em;">OF</small><br/> +PORTO RICO</h1> + + +<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin-top: 4em;">BY<br/> +<big>LEWIS MILLER</big></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 30px; margin: 4em auto;"> +<img src="images/doodad.png" width="30" height="26" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><big><b>The Knickerbocker Press</b></big><br/> +NEW YORK<br/> +1916</p> + + +<p class="center smcap page-break" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 8em auto;">Copyright, 1916<br/> +<small>BY</small><br/> +LEWIS MILLER</p> + + +<div class="page-break"><a class="pagenum" name="Page_3" title="3"> </a></div> +<p class="center" style="font-size: x-large;">The Haunted Sentry Box +of Porto Rico</p> + +<p class="center" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.8em; margin-bottom: 1em;">By<br/> +Lewis Miller</p> + +<img class="drop-cap" src="images/dropcap.png" width="100" height="95" alt="D"/> +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="first-word">Directly</span> below the old fort of +San Cristobal, in San Juan, +Porto Rico, projecting out over +the sea from a corner of the sea +wall, is a sentry box. Years +ago a sentry, placed on duty at this lonely +post, utterly disappeared, leaving behind +only his musket and side-arms. His disappearance +was so mysterious that it was +attributed to sea-devils, and the sentry box +has ever since been given a wide berth by all +superstitious natives.</p> + +<p>The same night of this strange incident, a +priest, the best liked and most admired of his +sect in the city, disappeared. The only clue +discovered in regard to his disappearance +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_4" title="4"> </a>was the small gold cross, which constantly +hung suspended from a chain around his +neck, found before the door of the corner +sentry box.</p> + +<p>I heard many stories in regard to the +disappearance of these two, but all were too +preposterous to allow any thought of truth. +At last, however, good luck brought me into +the presence of a man who knew, and it is the +story as I heard it from him which I am +undertaking to recount.</p> + +<p class="center thought-break">. . . . . . .</p> + +<p>The proprietor of one of the “tiendas” +in Mayaguez, Juan Cordo by name, was a +large, jovial old man full of stories of wild +adventure, with which every Saturday night +he entertained a gathering composed chiefly +of the working men, who, their work over for +the week, were ready to listen to any tale +which would entertain them—and the old +storekeeper was a good talker. It was at one +of these gatherings, to which I was frequently +drawn by a desire to hear the old man's +ramblings, that I heard the story of the +haunted sentry box.</p> + +<p>As usual, the old fellow, who loved to be +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_5" title="5"> </a>urged, could for sometime think of nothing +to tell about, but he finally decided on his +subject and settling back in his chair, began. +I noticed, however, that he carefully scrutinized +the faces of his audience, that is, of +all except one. But this one was really of +little importance as he was a late arrival in +town and scarcely known to any one. As I +have said, his face was free from the scrutinizing +eye of old Juan Cordo, for, coming in +late, he had quietly seated himself behind the +story-teller without attracting his attention.</p> + +<p>“My story begins back in the early +seventies,” began the old man in a thoughtful +and his usual hesitating tone. “The capital +was the scene of crimes, of immorality and of +all sorts of disorders. There were good men, +of course, but even these were often corrupted. +An instance of this was young Pedro +Delvarez, a soldier, who had enlisted in the +army when he was but seventeen. He had +had chances which most of his associates +had not—fine parents, an education, money; +but he proved unworthy of them all. He +turned to gambling and fast living, finally +marrying a young girl, far below him in social +rank, who married him merely for his money. +His love for this girl, however, partly cured +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_6" title="6"> </a>him of his wild life and helped him to be a +better fellow.</p> + +<p>“Although he might have had an officer's +rank through his father's influence, he had +enlisted as a mere common soldier due to +some fool book-notion of working his way up. +But his habits retarded his progress and at +the end of six years of service he found +himself still in the ranks. He made many +enemies among his rough associates and +chief among them was a great, strong, +dastardly fellow named Torcas.”</p> + +<p>There was a stir behind the old storekeeper +as the stranger leaned forward with a gleam +of interest in his eyes, but I thought with a +twitching of anger around his mouth. The +old man apparently did not hear him for he +continued without looking around.</p> + +<p>“How this enmity began I do not know, +but it increased daily and finally reached the +boiling point when Torcas ran off with the +flighty young wife of his enemy. Young +Delvarez was heart-broken and attempted +suicide, but was luckily saved from such an +untimely death through the intervention of +good Padre Suarez. This priest had for +some reason or other taken a great liking to +the young soldier and had endeavoured in +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_7" title="7"> </a>every way to help him. It was due to the +efforts of his clerical friend that Delvarez was +led back into the straight road and it was the +kindly advice of this same person which kept +him from a search for, and probably the +murder of, his enemy.</p> + +<p>“Life became a mere dream to the young +fellow, who went to his soldier's duties, +morose, bitter against the world, and shunning +his companions who he thought detested +him. He continued in this way for several +months till one night a crisis was reached. +He had been stationed on duty at the old +sentry box with the accusation of ‘murder’ +ringing in his ears. A few minutes before, in +a quarrel, his antagonist had accused him of +it; the murder of the young, fickle wife, who, +the preceding morning, had been found dead +in her bed. He was innocent, but he had no +friends to take his side in case the law was +against him, and he had no proofs of innocence. +While he stood looking out over the +sea, contemplating his troubles, he felt a +hand placed on his shoulder and turning +quickly could just discern in the darkness the +face of the kindly padre.</p> + +<p>“It was a wild night and the noise of the +sea and wind made hearing difficult, so that +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_8" title="8"> </a>he could scarcely understand the priest as he +leaned forward and shouted in his ear: ‘I +feel sure you're innocent’ said the priest, ‘but +the others don't seem to think so. So slip +over the wall here and get away; it's your +only chance because they're coming for you +soon. Go to some other place, live a clean, +decent life, but remember, if you ever come +up against that fellow Torcas don't do anything, +for God will take vengeance on him.’”</p> + +<p>Again there was a stir behind the story-teller +as the stranger leaned forward with the +interest in his eyes gleaming brighter than +before, while the twitching of anger around +his mouth seemed to have changed to a slight +smile. Again the old man, unconscious of +the interest he was arousing, continued:</p> + +<p>“The good fellow had just finished +speaking when a pistol shot rang out and a +bullet burned a furrow across Delvarez's +breast to bury itself in his friend's. Delvarez +sank to the ground, but the rain +quickly revived him and he got up, the wound +on his breast, which was to trouble him +through life, burning and throbbing. At +first he thought he was again alone, but his +foot encountered something, and stooping +over he found the body of the dead priest. +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_9" title="9"> </a>Suddenly he recalled his friend's advice and +determined to flee.</p> + +<p>“Feverishly he undressed himself and +exchanged clothing with the dead man. Next +he laid his firearms on the little bench which +ran around the sentry box, threw the body +over the wall, and lowered himself down +carefully after it. There was a spade at the +foot of the wall, the presence of which at +that time he did not stop to analyze; but +later, when thinking over the events of that +night, he determined it had been brought +there to be used on him as he used it on the +dead priest. With it he dug a deep hole +where he laid the body of his only friend. +Then he fled away into the night.</p> + +<p>“It was quite late when he reached the +little house which he had bought when he +married, and he was tired, but he thought he +would now probably be accused of two murders, +so he must get away. He changed +quickly into his most ragged clothes and +started off towards another city. How he +fared for the next few years I shall not +attempt to relate, but under an assumed +name, and with the power of his early home-training +and education, he slowly forged to +the front. He heard the stories of the +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_10" title="10"> </a>haunted sentry box and was pleased that his +disappearance had been so explained.</p> + +<p>“Although to all outward appearance he +was poor, his new life brought him money +and in the solitude of his little home he lived +in comfort. He likewise deceived the world +as to his feelings; to his friends he seemed a +jovial, care-free fellow, but at home he sank +back into bitterness and thoughts of his +wrongs. His thoughts often turned to +Torcas, but he just as frequently turned them +aside through a desire to follow the last +words of his murdered friend.</p> + +<p>“It was not until years later when the +world had nearly banished all thought of the +sentry box episode that Delvarez, now an old +man, again saw his bitter enemy. Torcas, +to his delight, did not recognize him and +Delvarez immediately started to plan the +death of his tormentor. He waited and +waited, but the right time never seemed to +come and finally the last words of the long-dead +friend again began to take effect. +Delvarez became calmer; he looked at the +unrecognizing man with pure disdain and a +great confidence arose in him that his friend's +words would come true, that God——”</p> + +<p>The story was interrupted by the stranger +<a class="pagenum" name="Page_11" title="11"> </a>behind the old story-teller. With a gurgling +cry of wrath he had sprung to his feet, his +right hand, tightly clenched about the handle +of a gleaming knife, shot upward, while his +left hand tore the shirt from the storekeeper's +shoulders, thus uncovering the old man's +chest, which had a dark red scar across it. +The knife started downward with terrific +force toward Cordo's bared body, but not +into it, for he, with a quick, instinctive, upward +throw of his arm, so changed the course +of the blade that it buried itself to the hilt +in its owner's breast.</p> + +<p>The priest had spoken the truth: God had +taken vengeance.</p> + +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico, by +Lewis Miller + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAUNTED SENTRY BOX *** + +***** This file should be named 33898-h.htm or 33898-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/8/9/33898/ + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico + +Author: Lewis Miller + +Release Date: October 31, 2010 [EBook #33898] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAUNTED SENTRY BOX *** + + + + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +[Illustration: HAUNTED SENTRY BOX, SAN CRISTOBAL, SAN JUAN] + + + + + THE + HAUNTED SENTRY BOX + OF + PORTO RICO + + + BY + LEWIS MILLER + + + The Knickerbocker Press + NEW YORK + 1916 + + + Copyright, 1916 + BY + LEWIS MILLER + + + + +The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico + +By + +Lewis Miller + + +Directly below the old fort of San Cristobal, in San Juan, Porto Rico, +projecting out over the sea from a corner of the sea wall, is a sentry +box. Years ago a sentry, placed on duty at this lonely post, utterly +disappeared, leaving behind only his musket and side-arms. His +disappearance was so mysterious that it was attributed to sea-devils, +and the sentry box has ever since been given a wide berth by all +superstitious natives. + +The same night of this strange incident, a priest, the best liked and +most admired of his sect in the city, disappeared. The only clue +discovered in regard to his disappearance was the small gold cross, +which constantly hung suspended from a chain around his neck, found +before the door of the corner sentry box. + +I heard many stories in regard to the disappearance of these two, but +all were too preposterous to allow any thought of truth. At last, +however, good luck brought me into the presence of a man who knew, and +it is the story as I heard it from him which I am undertaking to +recount. + + * * * * * + +The proprietor of one of the "tiendas" in Mayaguez, Juan Cordo by name, +was a large, jovial old man full of stories of wild adventure, with +which every Saturday night he entertained a gathering composed chiefly +of the working men, who, their work over for the week, were ready to +listen to any tale which would entertain them--and the old storekeeper +was a good talker. It was at one of these gatherings, to which I was +frequently drawn by a desire to hear the old man's ramblings, that I +heard the story of the haunted sentry box. + +As usual, the old fellow, who loved to be urged, could for sometime +think of nothing to tell about, but he finally decided on his subject +and settling back in his chair, began. I noticed, however, that he +carefully scrutinized the faces of his audience, that is, of all except +one. But this one was really of little importance as he was a late +arrival in town and scarcely known to any one. As I have said, his face +was free from the scrutinizing eye of old Juan Cordo, for, coming in +late, he had quietly seated himself behind the story-teller without +attracting his attention. + +"My story begins back in the early seventies," began the old man in a +thoughtful and his usual hesitating tone. "The capital was the scene of +crimes, of immorality and of all sorts of disorders. There were good +men, of course, but even these were often corrupted. An instance of this +was young Pedro Delvarez, a soldier, who had enlisted in the army when +he was but seventeen. He had had chances which most of his associates +had not--fine parents, an education, money; but he proved unworthy of +them all. He turned to gambling and fast living, finally marrying a +young girl, far below him in social rank, who married him merely for his +money. His love for this girl, however, partly cured him of his wild +life and helped him to be a better fellow. + +"Although he might have had an officer's rank through his father's +influence, he had enlisted as a mere common soldier due to some fool +book-notion of working his way up. But his habits retarded his progress +and at the end of six years of service he found himself still in the +ranks. He made many enemies among his rough associates and chief among +them was a great, strong, dastardly fellow named Torcas." + +There was a stir behind the old storekeeper as the stranger leaned +forward with a gleam of interest in his eyes, but I thought with a +twitching of anger around his mouth. The old man apparently did not hear +him for he continued without looking around. + +"How this enmity began I do not know, but it increased daily and finally +reached the boiling point when Torcas ran off with the flighty young +wife of his enemy. Young Delvarez was heart-broken and attempted +suicide, but was luckily saved from such an untimely death through the +intervention of good Padre Suarez. This priest had for some reason or +other taken a great liking to the young soldier and had endeavoured in +every way to help him. It was due to the efforts of his clerical friend +that Delvarez was led back into the straight road and it was the kindly +advice of this same person which kept him from a search for, and +probably the murder of, his enemy. + +"Life became a mere dream to the young fellow, who went to his soldier's +duties, morose, bitter against the world, and shunning his companions +who he thought detested him. He continued in this way for several months +till one night a crisis was reached. He had been stationed on duty at +the old sentry box with the accusation of 'murder' ringing in his ears. +A few minutes before, in a quarrel, his antagonist had accused him of +it; the murder of the young, fickle wife, who, the preceding morning, +had been found dead in her bed. He was innocent, but he had no friends +to take his side in case the law was against him, and he had no proofs +of innocence. While he stood looking out over the sea, contemplating his +troubles, he felt a hand placed on his shoulder and turning quickly +could just discern in the darkness the face of the kindly padre. + +"It was a wild night and the noise of the sea and wind made hearing +difficult, so that he could scarcely understand the priest as he leaned +forward and shouted in his ear: 'I feel sure you're innocent' said the +priest, 'but the others don't seem to think so. So slip over the wall +here and get away; it's your only chance because they're coming for you +soon. Go to some other place, live a clean, decent life, but remember, +if you ever come up against that fellow Torcas don't do anything, for +God will take vengeance on him.'" + +Again there was a stir behind the story-teller as the stranger leaned +forward with the interest in his eyes gleaming brighter than before, +while the twitching of anger around his mouth seemed to have changed to +a slight smile. Again the old man, unconscious of the interest he was +arousing, continued: + +"The good fellow had just finished speaking when a pistol shot rang out +and a bullet burned a furrow across Delvarez's breast to bury itself in +his friend's. Delvarez sank to the ground, but the rain quickly revived +him and he got up, the wound on his breast, which was to trouble him +through life, burning and throbbing. At first he thought he was again +alone, but his foot encountered something, and stooping over he found +the body of the dead priest. Suddenly he recalled his friend's advice +and determined to flee. + +"Feverishly he undressed himself and exchanged clothing with the dead +man. Next he laid his firearms on the little bench which ran around the +sentry box, threw the body over the wall, and lowered himself down +carefully after it. There was a spade at the foot of the wall, the +presence of which at that time he did not stop to analyze; but later, +when thinking over the events of that night, he determined it had been +brought there to be used on him as he used it on the dead priest. With +it he dug a deep hole where he laid the body of his only friend. Then he +fled away into the night. + +"It was quite late when he reached the little house which he had bought +when he married, and he was tired, but he thought he would now probably +be accused of two murders, so he must get away. He changed quickly into +his most ragged clothes and started off towards another city. How he +fared for the next few years I shall not attempt to relate, but under an +assumed name, and with the power of his early home-training and +education, he slowly forged to the front. He heard the stories of the +haunted sentry box and was pleased that his disappearance had been so +explained. + +"Although to all outward appearance he was poor, his new life brought +him money and in the solitude of his little home he lived in comfort. He +likewise deceived the world as to his feelings; to his friends he seemed +a jovial, care-free fellow, but at home he sank back into bitterness and +thoughts of his wrongs. His thoughts often turned to Torcas, but he just +as frequently turned them aside through a desire to follow the last +words of his murdered friend. + +"It was not until years later when the world had nearly banished all +thought of the sentry box episode that Delvarez, now an old man, again +saw his bitter enemy. Torcas, to his delight, did not recognize him and +Delvarez immediately started to plan the death of his tormentor. He +waited and waited, but the right time never seemed to come and finally +the last words of the long-dead friend again began to take effect. +Delvarez became calmer; he looked at the unrecognizing man with pure +disdain and a great confidence arose in him that his friend's words +would come true, that God----" + +The story was interrupted by the stranger behind the old story-teller. +With a gurgling cry of wrath he had sprung to his feet, his right hand, +tightly clenched about the handle of a gleaming knife, shot upward, +while his left hand tore the shirt from the storekeeper's shoulders, +thus uncovering the old man's chest, which had a dark red scar across +it. The knife started downward with terrific force toward Cordo's bared +body, but not into it, for he, with a quick, instinctive, upward throw +of his arm, so changed the course of the blade that it buried itself to +the hilt in its owner's breast. + +The priest had spoken the truth: God had taken vengeance. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Haunted Sentry Box of Porto Rico, by +Lewis Miller + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAUNTED SENTRY BOX *** + +***** This file should be named 33898.txt or 33898.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/8/9/33898/ + +Produced by Suzanne Shell, Jana Srna and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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