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The
chief
engineer
pulled
out
his
watch
.
"
By
Captain
Mitchell
's
reckoning
--
and
he
ought
to
know
--
it
has
been
gone
long
enough
now
to
be
some
three
or
four
miles
outside
the
harbour
;
and
,
as
Mitchell
says
,
Nostromo
is
the
sort
of
seaman
to
make
the
best
of
his
opportunities
.
"
Here
the
doctor
grunted
so
heavily
that
the
other
changed
his
tone
.
"
You
have
a
poor
opinion
of
that
move
,
doctor
?
But
why
?
Charles
Gould
has
got
to
play
his
game
out
,
though
he
is
not
the
man
to
formulate
his
conduct
even
to
himself
,
perhaps
,
let
alone
to
others
.
It
may
be
that
the
game
has
been
partly
suggested
to
him
by
Holroyd
;
but
it
accords
with
his
character
,
too
;
and
that
is
why
it
has
been
so
successful
.
Have
n't
they
come
to
calling
him
'
El
Rey
de
Sulaco
'
in
Sta
.
Marta
?
A
nickname
may
be
the
best
record
of
a
success
.
That
's
what
I
call
putting
the
face
of
a
joke
upon
the
body
of
a
truth
.
My
dear
sir
,
when
I
first
arrived
in
Sta
.
Marta
I
was
struck
by
the
way
all
those
journalists
,
demagogues
,
members
of
Congress
,
and
all
those
generals
and
judges
cringed
before
a
sleepy-eyed
advocate
without
practice
simply
because
he
was
the
plenipotentiary
of
the
Gould
Concession
.
Sir
John
when
he
came
out
was
impressed
,
too
.
"
"
A
new
State
,
with
that
plump
dandy
,
Decoud
,
for
the
first
President
,
"
mused
Dr.
Monygham
,
nursing
his
cheek
and
swinging
his
legs
all
the
time
.
"
Upon
my
word
,
and
why
not
?
"
the
chief
engineer
retorted
in
an
unexpectedly
earnest
and
confidential
voice
.
It
was
as
if
something
subtle
in
the
air
of
Costaguana
had
inoculated
him
with
the
local
faith
in
"
pronunciamientos
.
"
All
at
once
he
began
to
talk
,
like
an
expert
revolutionist
,
of
the
instrument
ready
to
hand
in
the
intact
army
at
Cayta
,
which
could
be
brought
back
in
a
few
days
to
Sulaco
if
only
Decoud
managed
to
make
his
way
at
once
down
the
coast
.
For
the
military
chief
there
was
Barrios
,
who
had
nothing
but
a
bullet
to
expect
from
Montero
,
his
former
professional
rival
and
bitter
enemy
.
Barrios
's
concurrence
was
assured
.
As
to
his
army
,
it
had
nothing
to
expect
from
Montero
either
;
not
even
a
month
's
pay
.
From
that
point
of
view
the
existence
of
the
treasure
was
of
enormous
importance
.
The
mere
knowledge
that
it
had
been
saved
from
the
Monterists
would
be
a
strong
inducement
for
the
Cayta
troops
to
embrace
the
cause
of
the
new
State
.
The
doctor
turned
round
and
contemplated
his
companion
for
some
time
.
"
This
Decoud
,
I
see
,
is
a
persuasive
young
beggar
,
"
he
remarked
at
last
.
"
And
pray
is
it
for
this
,
then
,
that
Charles
Gould
has
let
the
whole
lot
of
ingots
go
out
to
sea
in
charge
of
that
Nostromo
?
"
"
Charles
Gould
,
"
said
the
engineer-in-chief
,
"
has
said
no
more
about
his
motive
than
usual
.
You
know
,
he
does
n't
talk
.
But
we
all
here
know
his
motive
,
and
he
has
only
one
--
the
safety
of
the
San
Tome
mine
with
the
preservation
of
the
Gould
Concession
in
the
spirit
of
his
compact
with
Holroyd
.
Holroyd
is
another
uncommon
man
.
They
understand
each
other
's
imaginative
side
.
One
is
thirty
,
the
other
nearly
sixty
,
and
they
have
been
made
for
each
other
.
To
be
a
millionaire
,
and
such
a
millionaire
as
Holroyd
,
is
like
being
eternally
young
.
The
audacity
of
youth
reckons
upon
what
it
fancies
an
unlimited
time
at
its
disposal
;
but
a
millionaire
has
unlimited
means
in
his
hand
--
which
is
better
.
One
's
time
on
earth
is
an
uncertain
quantity
,
but
about
the
long
reach
of
millions
there
is
no
doubt
.
The
introduction
of
a
pure
form
of
Christianity
into
this
continent
is
a
dream
for
a
youthful
enthusiast
,
and
I
have
been
trying
to
explain
to
you
why
Holroyd
at
fifty-eight
is
like
a
man
on
the
threshold
of
life
,
and
better
,
too
.
He
's
not
a
missionary
,
but
the
San
Tome
mine
holds
just
that
for
him
.
I
assure
you
,
in
sober
truth
,
that
he
could
not
manage
to
keep
this
out
of
a
strictly
business
conference
upon
the
finances
of
Costaguana
he
had
with
Sir
John
a
couple
of
years
ago
.
Sir
John
mentioned
it
with
amazement
in
a
letter
he
wrote
to
me
here
,
from
San
Francisco
,
when
on
his
way
home
.
Upon
my
word
,
doctor
,
things
seem
to
be
worth
nothing
by
what
they
are
in
themselves
.
I
begin
to
believe
that
the
only
solid
thing
about
them
is
the
spiritual
value
which
everyone
discovers
in
his
own
form
of
activity
--
--
"
