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Don
Juste
proposed
that
Don
Carlos
Gould
,
as
the
most
prominent
citizen
of
the
province
,
should
join
the
Assembly
's
deputation
.
His
position
was
exceptional
,
his
personality
known
through
the
length
and
breadth
of
the
whole
Republic
.
Official
courtesies
must
not
be
neglected
,
if
they
are
gone
through
with
a
bleeding
heart
.
The
acceptance
of
accomplished
facts
may
save
yet
the
precious
vestiges
of
parliamentary
institutions
.
Don
Juste
's
eyes
glowed
dully
;
he
believed
in
parliamentary
institutions
--
and
the
convinced
drone
of
his
voice
lost
itself
in
the
stillness
of
the
house
like
the
deep
buzzing
of
some
ponderous
insect
.
Charles
Gould
had
turned
round
to
listen
patiently
,
leaning
his
elbow
on
the
balustrade
.
He
shook
his
head
a
little
,
refusing
,
almost
touched
by
the
anxious
gaze
of
the
President
of
the
Provincial
Assembly
.
It
was
not
Charles
Gould
's
policy
to
make
the
San
Tome
mine
a
party
to
any
formal
proceedings
.
"
My
advice
,
senores
,
is
that
you
should
wait
for
your
fate
in
your
houses
.
There
is
no
necessity
for
you
to
give
yourselves
up
formally
into
Montero
's
hands
.
Submission
to
the
inevitable
,
as
Don
Juste
calls
it
,
is
all
very
well
,
but
when
the
inevitable
is
called
Pedrito
Montero
there
is
no
need
to
exhibit
pointedly
the
whole
extent
of
your
surrender
.
The
fault
of
this
country
is
the
want
of
measure
in
political
life
.
Flat
acquiescence
in
illegality
,
followed
by
sanguinary
reaction
--
that
,
senores
,
is
not
the
way
to
a
stable
and
prosperous
future
.
"
Charles
Gould
stopped
before
the
sad
bewilderment
of
the
faces
,
the
wondering
,
anxious
glances
of
the
eyes
.
The
feeling
of
pity
for
those
men
,
putting
all
their
trust
into
words
of
some
sort
,
while
murder
and
rapine
stalked
over
the
land
,
had
betrayed
him
into
what
seemed
empty
loquacity
.
Don
Juste
murmured
--
"
You
are
abandoning
us
,
Don
Carlos
...
And
yet
,
parliamentary
institutions
--
"
He
could
not
finish
from
grief
.
For
a
moment
he
put
his
hand
over
his
eyes
.
Charles
Gould
,
in
his
fear
of
empty
loquacity
,
made
no
answer
to
the
charge
.
He
returned
in
silence
their
ceremonious
bows
.
His
taciturnity
was
his
refuge
.
He
understood
that
what
they
sought
was
to
get
the
influence
of
the
San
Tome
mine
on
their
side
.
They
wanted
to
go
on
a
conciliating
errand
to
the
victor
under
the
wing
of
the
Gould
Concession
.
Other
public
bodies
--
the
Cabildo
,
the
Consulado
--
would
be
coming
,
too
,
presently
,
seeking
the
support
of
the
most
stable
,
the
most
effective
force
they
had
ever
known
to
exist
in
their
province
.
The
doctor
,
arriving
with
his
sharp
,
jerky
walk
,
found
that
the
master
had
retired
into
his
own
room
with
.
orders
not
to
be
disturbed
on
any
account
.
But
Dr.
Monygham
was
not
anxious
to
see
Charles
Gould
at
once
.
He
spent
some
time
in
a
rapid
examination
of
his
wounded
.
He
gazed
down
upon
each
in
turn
,
rubbing
his
chin
between
his
thumb
and
forefinger
;
his
steady
stare
met
without
expression
their
silently
inquisitive
look
.
All
these
cases
were
doing
well
;
but
when
he
came
to
the
dead
Cargador
he
stopped
a
little
longer
,
surveying
not
the
man
who
had
ceased
to
suffer
,
but
the
woman
kneeling
in
silent
contemplation
of
the
rigid
face
,
with
its
pinched
nostrils
and
a
white
gleam
in
the
imperfectly
closed
eyes
.
She
lifted
her
head
slowly
,
and
said
in
a
dull
voice
--
"
It
is
not
long
since
he
had
become
a
Cargador
--
only
a
few
weeks
.
His
worship
the
Capataz
had
accepted
him
after
many
entreaties
.
"
