The vote next day amply justified the hopes of O'Halloran and his
friends. The whole ticket, sent out by telegraph and messengers
throughout the State, was triumphantly elected by large
majorities. Only in one or two out-of-the-way places, where the
news of the fall of Megales did not arrive in time to affect the
voting, did the old government party make any showing worthy of
consideration.
It was after Valdez's election had been made certain by the
returns that O'Halloran and Juan Valdez posted to the prison and
visited father and daughter. They separated in the lower
corridor, one to visit the defeated governor, the other Miss
Carmencita. The problem before Juan Valdez was to induce that
young woman to remain in Chihuahua instead of accompanying her
father in his flight. He was a good fighter, and he meant to win,
if it were a possibility. She had tacitly admitted that she loved
him, but he knew that she felt that loyalty demanded she stay by
her father in his flight.
When O'Halloran was admitted to the cell where the governor and
the general were staying he laughed aloud.
"Faith, gentlemen, is this the best accommodation Governor Valdez
can furnish his guests? We must petition him to improve the
sanitation of his hotel.
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