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Very
early
,
at
the
beginning
of
the
trouble
,
Hernandez
,
the
bandit
,
had
proposed
(
through
the
agency
of
an
old
priest
of
a
village
in
the
wilds
)
to
deliver
two
of
them
to
the
Ribierist
authorities
in
Tonoro
.
They
had
come
to
offer
him
a
free
pardon
and
the
rank
of
colonel
from
General
Montero
in
consideration
of
joining
the
rebel
army
with
his
mounted
band
.
No
notice
was
taken
at
the
time
of
the
proposal
.
It
was
joined
,
as
an
evidence
of
good
faith
,
to
a
petition
praying
the
Sulaco
Assembly
for
permission
to
enlist
,
with
all
his
followers
,
in
the
forces
being
then
raised
in
Sulaco
for
the
defence
of
the
Five-Year
Mandate
of
regeneration
.
The
petition
,
like
everything
else
,
had
found
its
way
into
Don
Jose
's
hands
.
He
had
showed
to
Mrs.
Gould
these
pages
of
dirty-greyish
rough
paper
(
perhaps
looted
in
some
village
store
)
,
covered
with
the
crabbed
,
illiterate
handwriting
of
the
old
padre
,
carried
off
from
his
hut
by
the
side
of
a
mud-walled
church
to
be
the
secretary
of
the
dreaded
Salteador
.
They
had
both
bent
in
the
lamplight
of
the
Gould
drawing-room
over
the
document
containing
the
fierce
and
yet
humble
appeal
of
the
man
against
the
blind
and
stupid
barbarity
turning
an
honest
ranchero
into
a
bandit
.
A
postscript
of
the
priest
stated
that
,
but
for
being
deprived
of
his
liberty
for
ten
days
,
he
had
been
treated
with
humanity
and
the
respect
due
to
his
sacred
calling
.
He
had
been
,
it
appears
,
confessing
and
absolving
the
chief
and
most
of
the
band
,
and
he
guaranteed
the
sincerity
of
their
good
disposition
.
He
had
distributed
heavy
penances
,
no
doubt
in
the
way
of
litanies
and
fasts
;
but
he
argued
shrewdly
that
it
would
be
difficult
for
them
to
make
their
peace
with
God
durably
till
they
had
made
peace
with
men
.
Never
before
,
perhaps
,
had
Hernandez
's
head
been
in
less
jeopardy
than
when
he
petitioned
humbly
for
permission
to
buy
a
pardon
for
himself
and
his
gang
of
deserters
by
armed
service
.
He
could
range
afar
from
the
waste
lands
protecting
his
fastness
,
unchecked
,
because
there
were
no
troops
left
in
the
whole
province
.
The
usual
garrison
of
Sulaco
had
gone
south
to
the
war
,
with
its
brass
band
playing
the
Bolivar
march
on
the
bridge
of
one
of
the
O.S.N.
Company
's
steamers
.
The
great
family
coaches
drawn
up
along
the
shore
of
the
harbour
were
made
to
rock
on
the
high
leathern
springs
by
the
enthusiasm
of
the
senoras
and
the
senoritas
standing
up
to
wave
their
lace
handkerchiefs
,
as
lighter
after
lighter
packed
full
of
troops
left
the
end
of
the
jetty
.
Nostromo
directed
the
embarkation
,
under
the
superintendendence
of
Captain
Mitchell
,
red-faced
in
the
sun
,
conspicuous
in
a
white
waistcoat
,
representing
the
allied
and
anxious
goodwill
of
all
the
material
interests
of
civilization
.
General
Barrios
,
who
commanded
the
troops
,
assured
Don
Jose
on
parting
that
in
three
weeks
he
would
have
Montero
in
a
wooden
cage
drawn
by
three
pair
of
oxen
ready
for
a
tour
through
all
the
towns
of
the
Republic
.
"
And
then
,
senora
,
"
he
continued
,
baring
his
curly
iron-grey
head
to
Mrs.
Gould
in
her
landau
--
"
and
then
,
senora
,
we
shall
convert
our
swords
into
plough-shares
and
grow
rich
.
Even
I
,
myself
,
as
soon
as
this
little
business
is
settled
,
shall
open
a
fundacion
on
some
land
I
have
on
the
llanos
and
try
to
make
a
little
money
in
peace
and
quietness
.
Senora
,
you
know
,
all
Costaguana
knows
--
what
do
I
say
?
--
this
whole
South
American
continent
knows
,
that
Pablo
Barrios
has
had
his
fill
of
military
glory
.
"
Charles
Gould
was
not
present
at
the
anxious
and
patriotic
send-off
.
It
was
not
his
part
to
see
the
soldiers
embark
.
It
was
neither
his
part
,
nor
his
inclination
,
nor
his
policy
.
His
part
,
his
inclination
,
and
his
policy
were
united
in
one
endeavour
to
keep
unchecked
the
flow
of
treasure
he
had
started
single-handed
from
the
re-opened
scar
in
the
flank
of
the
mountain
.
As
the
mine
developed
he
had
trained
for
himself
some
native
help
.
There
were
foremen
,
artificers
and
clerks
,
with
Don
Pepe
for
the
gobernador
of
the
mining
population
.
For
the
rest
his
shoulders
alone
sustained
the
whole
weight
of
the
"
Imperium
in
Imperio
,
"
the
great
Gould
Concession
whose
mere
shadow
had
been
enough
to
crush
the
life
out
of
his
father
.
Mrs.
Gould
had
no
silver
mine
to
look
after
.
In
the
general
life
of
the
Gould
Concession
she
was
represented
by
her
two
lieutenants
,
the
doctor
and
the
priest
,
but
she
fed
her
woman
's
love
of
excitement
on
events
whose
significance
was
purified
to
her
by
the
fire
of
her
imaginative
purpose
.
On
that
day
she
had
brought
the
Avellanos
,
father
and
daughter
,
down
to
the
harbour
with
her
.
Amongst
his
other
activities
of
that
stirring
time
,
Don
Jose
had
become
the
chairman
of
a
Patriotic
Committee
which
had
armed
a
great
proportion
of
troops
in
the
Sulaco
command
with
an
improved
model
of
a
military
rifle
.
It
had
been
just
discarded
for
something
still
more
deadly
by
one
of
the
great
European
powers
.
How
much
of
the
market-price
for
second-hand
weapons
was
covered
by
the
voluntary
contributions
of
the
principal
families
,
and
how
much
came
from
those
funds
Don
Jose
was
understood
to
command
abroad
,
remained
a
secret
which
he
alone
could
have
disclosed
;
but
the
Ricos
,
as
the
populace
called
them
,
had
contributed
under
the
pressure
of
their
Nestor
's
eloquence
.
Some
of
the
more
enthusiastic
ladies
had
been
moved
to
bring
offerings
of
jewels
into
the
hands
of
the
man
who
was
the
life
and
soul
of
the
party
.
There
were
moments
when
both
his
life
and
his
soul
seemed
overtaxed
by
so
many
years
of
undiscouraged
belief
in
regeneration
.
He
appeared
almost
inanimate
,
sitting
rigidly
by
the
side
of
Mrs.
Gould
in
the
landau
,
with
his
fine
,
old
,
clean-shaven
face
of
a
uniform
tint
as
if
modelled
in
yellow
wax
,
shaded
by
a
soft
felt
hat
,
the
dark
eyes
looking
out
fixedly
.
Antonia
,
the
beautiful
Antonia
,
as
Miss
Avellanos
was
called
in
Sulaco
,
leaned
back
,
facing
them
;
and
her
full
figure
,
the
grave
oval
of
her
face
with
full
red
lips
,
made
her
look
more
mature
than
Mrs.
Gould
,
with
her
mobile
expression
and
small
,
erect
person
under
a
slightly
swaying
sunshade
