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Just
as
years
ago
,
calmly
,
from
the
conviction
of
practical
necessity
,
stronger
than
any
abstract
political
doctrine
,
Henry
Gould
had
drawn
the
sword
,
so
now
,
the
times
being
changed
,
Charles
Gould
had
flung
the
silver
of
the
San
Tome
into
the
fray
.
The
Inglez
of
Sulaco
,
the
"
Costaguana
Englishman
"
of
the
third
generation
,
was
as
far
from
being
a
political
intriguer
as
his
uncle
from
a
revolutionary
swashbuckler
.
Springing
from
the
instinctive
uprightness
of
their
natures
their
action
was
reasoned
.
They
saw
an
opportunity
and
used
the
weapon
to
hand
.
Charles
Gould
's
position
--
a
commanding
position
in
the
background
of
that
attempt
to
retrieve
the
peace
and
the
credit
of
the
Republic
--
was
very
clear
.
At
the
beginning
he
had
had
to
accommodate
himself
to
existing
circumstances
of
corruption
so
naively
brazen
as
to
disarm
the
hate
of
a
man
courageous
enough
not
to
be
afraid
of
its
irresponsible
potency
to
ruin
everything
it
touched
.
It
seemed
to
him
too
contemptible
for
hot
anger
even
.
He
made
use
of
it
with
a
cold
,
fearless
scorn
,
manifested
rather
than
concealed
by
the
forms
of
stony
courtesy
which
did
away
with
much
of
the
ignominy
of
the
situation
.
At
bottom
,
perhaps
,
he
suffered
from
it
,
for
he
was
not
a
man
of
cowardly
illusions
,
but
he
refused
to
discuss
the
ethical
view
with
his
wife
.
He
trusted
that
,
though
a
little
disenchanted
,
she
would
be
intelligent
enough
to
understand
that
his
character
safeguarded
the
enterprise
of
their
lives
as
much
or
more
than
his
policy
.
The
extraordinary
development
of
the
mine
had
put
a
great
power
into
his
hands
.
To
feel
that
prosperity
always
at
the
mercy
of
unintelligent
greed
had
grown
irksome
to
him
.
To
Mrs.
Gould
it
was
humiliating
.
At
any
rate
,
it
was
dangerous
.
In
the
confidential
communications
passing
between
Charles
Gould
,
the
King
of
Sulaco
,
and
the
head
of
the
silver
and
steel
interests
far
away
in
California
,
the
conviction
was
growing
that
any
attempt
made
by
men
of
education
and
integrity
ought
to
be
discreetly
supported
.
"
You
may
tell
your
friend
Avellanos
that
I
think
so
,
"
Mr
Holroyd
had
written
at
the
proper
moment
from
his
inviolable
sanctuary
within
the
eleven-storey
high
factory
of
great
affairs
.
And
shortly
afterwards
,
with
a
credit
opened
by
the
Third
Southern
Bank
(
located
next
door
but
one
to
the
Holroyd
Building
)
,
the
Ribierist
party
in
Costaguana
took
a
practical
shape
under
the
eye
of
the
administrator
of
the
San
Tome
mine
.
And
Don
Jose
,
the
hereditary
friend
of
the
Gould
family
,
could
say
:
"
Perhaps
,
my
dear
Carlos
,
I
shall
not
have
believed
in
vain
.
"
AFTER
another
armed
struggle
,
decided
by
Montero
's
victory
of
Rio
Seco
,
had
been
added
to
the
tale
of
civil
wars
,
the
"
honest
men
,
"
as
Don
Jose
called
them
,
could
breathe
freely
for
the
first
time
in
half
a
century
.
The
Five-Year-Mandate
law
became
the
basis
of
that
regeneration
,
the
passionate
desire
and
hope
for
which
had
been
like
the
elixir
of
everlasting
youth
for
Don
Jose
Avellanos
.
And
when
it
was
suddenly
--
and
not
quite
unexpectedly
--
endangered
by
that
"
brute
Montero
,
"
it
was
a
passionate
indignation
that
gave
him
a
new
lease
of
life
,
as
it
were
.
Already
,
at
the
time
of
the
President-Dictator
's
visit
to
Sulaco
,
Moraga
had
sounded
a
note
of
warning
from
Sta
.
Marta
about
the
War
Minister
.
Montero
and
his
brother
made
the
subject
of
an
earnest
talk
between
the
Dictator-President
and
the
Nestor-inspirer
of
the
party
.
But
Don
Vincente
,
a
doctor
of
philosophy
from
the
Cordova
University
,
seemed
to
have
an
exaggerated
respect
for
military
ability
,
whose
mysteriousness
--
since
it
appeared
to
be
altogether
independent
of
intellect
--
imposed
upon
his
imagination
.
The
victor
of
Rio
Seco
was
a
popular
hero
.
His
services
were
so
recent
that
the
President-Dictator
quailed
before
the
obvious
charge
of
political
ingratitude
.
Great
regenerating
transactions
were
being
initiated
--
the
fresh
loan
,
a
new
railway
line
,
a
vast
colonization
scheme
.
Anything
that
could
unsettle
the
public
opinion
in
the
capital
was
to
be
avoided
.
Don
Jose
bowed
to
these
arguments
and
tried
to
dismiss
from
his
mind
the
gold-laced
portent
in
boots
,
and
with
a
sabre
,
made
meaningless
now
at
last
,
he
hoped
,
in
the
new
order
of
things
.
Less
than
six
months
after
the
President-Dictator
's
visit
,
Sulaco
learned
with
stupefaction
of
the
military
revolt
in
the
name
of
national
honour
.
The
Minister
of
War
,
in
a
barrack-square
allocution
to
the
officers
of
the
artillery
regiment
he
had
been
inspecting
,
had
declared
the
national
honour
sold
to
foreigners
.
The
Dictator
,
by
his
weak
compliance
with
the
demands
of
the
European
powers
--
for
the
settlement
of
long
outstanding
money
claims
--
had
showed
himself
unfit
to
rule
.
A
letter
from
Moraga
explained
afterwards
that
the
initiative
,
and
even
the
very
text
,
of
the
incendiary
allocution
came
,
in
reality
,
from
the
other
Montero
,
the
ex-guerillero
,
the
Commandante
de
Plaza
.
The
energetic
treatment
of
Dr.
Monygham
,
sent
for
in
haste
"
to
the
mountain
,
"
who
came
galloping
three
leagues
in
the
dark
,
saved
Don
Jose
from
a
dangerous
attack
of
jaundice
.
After
getting
over
the
shock
,
Don
Jose
refused
to
let
himself
be
prostrated
.
Indeed
,
better
news
succeeded
at
first
.
The
revolt
in
the
capital
had
been
suppressed
after
a
night
of
fighting
in
the
streets
.
Unfortunately
,
both
the
Monteros
had
been
able
to
make
their
escape
south
,
to
their
native
province
of
Entre-Montes
.
The
hero
of
the
forest
march
,
the
victor
of
Rio
Seco
,
had
been
received
with
frenzied
acclamations
in
Nicoya
,
the
provincial
capital
.
The
troops
in
garrison
there
had
gone
to
him
in
a
body
.
The
brothers
were
organizing
an
army
,
gathering
malcontents
,
sending
emissaries
primed
with
patriotic
lies
to
the
people
,
and
with
promises
of
plunder
to
the
wild
llaneros
.
Even
a
Monterist
press
had
come
into
existence
,
speaking
oracularly
of
the
secret
promises
of
support
given
by
"
our
great
sister
Republic
of
the
North
"
against
the
sinister
land-grabbing
designs
of
European
powers
,
cursing
in
every
issue
the
"
miserable
Ribiera
,
"
who
had
plotted
to
deliver
his
country
,
bound
hand
and
foot
,
for
a
prey
to
foreign
speculators
.
Sulaco
,
pastoral
and
sleepy
,
with
its
opulent
Campo
and
the
rich
silver
mine
,
heard
the
din
of
arms
fitfully
in
its
fortunate
isolation
.
It
was
nevertheless
in
the
very
forefront
of
the
defence
with
men
and
money
;
but
the
very
rumours
reached
it
circuitously
--
from
abroad
even
,
so
much
was
it
cut
off
from
the
rest
of
the
Republic
,
not
only
by
natural
obstacles
,
but
also
by
the
vicissitudes
of
the
war
.
The
Monteristos
were
besieging
Cayta
,
an
important
postal
link
.
The
overland
couriers
ceased
to
come
across
the
mountains
,
and
no
muleteer
would
consent
to
risk
the
journey
at
last
;
even
Bonifacio
on
one
occasion
failed
to
return
from
Sta
.
Marta
,
either
not
daring
to
start
,
or
perhaps
captured
by
the
parties
of
the
enemy
raiding
the
country
between
the
Cordillera
and
the
capital
.
Monterist
publications
,
however
,
found
their
way
into
the
province
,
mysteriously
enough
;
and
also
Monterist
emissaries
preaching
death
to
aristocrats
in
the
villages
and
towns
of
the
Campo
.
