THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER
They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile
republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had
reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution;
and that one hundred thousand dollars, government funds,
which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of
his tempestuous administration, was never afterward recovered.