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He has been guilty of a serious breach of discipline and must suffer for it . You may take the necessary steps at once in the matter , general . '' `` Excellency , yes , '' said General Harero , hastening away with secret delight , and at once taking such measures as should carry out his own wishes and purposes . The result of the matter was , that before ten o'clock that morning the note conveying the challenge was answered by an aid-de-camp and a file of soldiers , who arrested Captain Bezan for insubordination , and quietly conducted him to the damp underground cells of the military prison , where he was left to consider the new position in which he found himself , solitary and alone , with a straw bed , and no convenience or comfort about him . And it is not surprising that such a situation should have been particularly suggestive to a mind so active as that of Lorenzo Bezan . TO know and fully realize the bitter severity exercised in the Spanish prisons , both at Madrid and in Havana , one must have witnessed it . Cold , dark and dreary cells , fit only to act as supports to the upper and better lighted portions of the dismal structure , are filled by those persons who have incurred in any way the displeasure of the military board of commission .