CHAPTER XI.
THE PROMOTION.
WE have already given the reader a sufficient idea of Lorenzo Bezan,
for him to understand that he was a person possessed of more than
ordinary manliness and personal beauty. A distinguished and
chivalric bearing was one of his main characteristics, and you could
hardly have passed him in a crowd, without noting his fine manly
physical appearance, and strikingly intelligent features. Fired with
the new ambition which we have referred to in the closing of the
last chapter, Lorenzo Bezan arrived in the capital of his native
land, ready and eager to engage in any enterprise that called for
bravery and daring, and which in return promised honor and
preferment.
Tacon, governor-general of Cuba, had marked his qualities well, and
therefore wrote by the same conveyance that took the young soldier
to Spain, to the head of the war department, and told them of what
stuff he was composed, and hinted at the possibility of at once
placing him in the line of his rank, and of giving him, if possible,
active service to perform. Tacon's opinion and wishes were highly
respected at Madrid, and Lorenzo Bezan found himself at once placed
in the very position he would have desired-the command of as fine a
company, of the regular service as the army could boast, and his
rank and position thoroughly restored.
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