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And
now
the
Europeans
were
dropping
off
from
the
group
around
Charles
Gould
till
the
Administrador
of
the
Great
Silver
Mine
could
be
seen
in
his
whole
lank
length
,
from
head
to
foot
,
left
stranded
by
the
ebbing
tide
of
his
guests
on
the
great
square
of
carpet
,
as
it
were
a
multi-coloured
shoal
of
flowers
and
arabesques
under
his
brown
boots
.
Father
Corbelan
approached
the
rocking-chair
of
Don
Jose
Avellanos
.
"
Come
,
brother
,
"
he
said
,
with
kindly
brusqueness
and
a
touch
of
relieved
impatience
a
man
may
feel
at
the
end
of
a
perfectly
useless
ceremony
.
"
A
la
Casa
!
A
la
Casa
!
This
has
been
all
talk
.
Let
us
now
go
and
think
and
pray
for
guidance
from
Heaven
.
"
He
rolled
his
black
eyes
upwards
.
By
the
side
of
the
frail
diplomatist
--
the
life
and
soul
of
the
party
--
he
seemed
gigantic
,
with
a
gleam
of
fanaticism
in
the
glance
.
But
the
voice
of
the
party
,
or
,
rather
,
its
mouthpiece
,
the
"
son
Decoud
"
from
Paris
,
turned
journalist
for
the
sake
of
Antonia
's
eyes
,
knew
very
well
that
it
was
not
so
,
that
he
was
only
a
strenuous
priest
with
one
idea
,
feared
by
the
women
and
execrated
by
the
men
of
the
people
.
Martin
Decoud
,
the
dilettante
in
life
,
imagined
himself
to
derive
an
artistic
pleasure
from
watching
the
picturesque
extreme
of
wrongheadedness
into
which
an
honest
,
almost
sacred
,
conviction
may
drive
a
man
.
"
It
is
like
madness
.
It
must
be
--
because
it
's
self-destructive
,
"
Decoud
had
said
to
himself
often
.
It
seemed
to
him
that
every
conviction
,
as
soon
as
it
became
effective
,
turned
into
that
form
of
dementia
the
gods
send
upon
those
they
wish
to
destroy
.
But
he
enjoyed
the
bitter
flavour
of
that
example
with
the
zest
of
a
connoisseur
in
the
art
of
his
choice
.
Those
two
men
got
on
well
together
,
as
if
each
had
felt
respectively
that
a
masterful
conviction
,
as
well
as
utter
scepticism
,
may
lead
a
man
very
far
on
the
by-paths
of
political
action
.
Don
Jose
obeyed
the
touch
of
the
big
hairy
hand
.
Decoud
followed
out
the
brothers-in-law
.
And
there
remained
only
one
visitor
in
the
vast
empty
sala
,
bluishly
hazy
with
tobacco
smoke
,
a
heavy-eyed
,
round-cheeked
man
,
with
a
drooping
moustache
,
a
hide
merchant
from
Esmeralda
,
who
had
come
overland
to
Sulaco
,
riding
with
a
few
peons
across
the
coast
range
.
He
was
very
full
of
his
journey
,
undertaken
mostly
for
the
purpose
of
seeing
the
Senor
Administrador
of
San
Tome
in
relation
to
some
assistance
he
required
in
his
hide-exporting
business
.
He
hoped
to
enlarge
it
greatly
now
that
the
country
was
going
to
be
settled
.
It
was
going
to
be
settled
,
he
repeated
several
times
,
degrading
by
a
strange
,
anxious
whine
the
sonority
of
the
Spanish
language
,
which
he
pattered
rapidly
,
like
some
sort
of
cringing
jargon
.
A
plain
man
could
carry
on
his
little
business
now
in
the
country
,
and
even
think
of
enlarging
it
--
with
safety
.
Was
it
not
so
?
He
seemed
to
beg
Charles
Gould
for
a
confirmatory
word
,
a
grunt
of
assent
,
a
simple
nod
even
.
He
could
get
nothing
.
His
alarm
increased
,
and
in
the
pauses
he
would
dart
his
eyes
here
and
there
;
then
,
loth
to
give
up
,
he
would
branch
off
into
feeling
allusion
to
the
dangers
of
his
journey
.
The
audacious
Hernandez
,
leaving
his
usual
haunts
,
had
crossed
the
Campo
of
Sulaco
,
and
was
known
to
be
lurking
in
the
ravines
of
the
coast
range
.
Yesterday
,
when
distant
only
a
few
hours
from
Sulaco
,
the
hide
merchant
and
his
servants
had
seen
three
men
on
the
road
arrested
suspiciously
,
with
their
horses
'
heads
together
.
Two
of
these
rode
off
at
once
and
disappeared
in
a
shallow
quebrada
to
the
left
.
"
We
stopped
,
"
continued
the
man
from
Esmeralda
,
"
and
I
tried
to
hide
behind
a
small
bush
.
But
none
of
my
mozos
would
go
forward
to
find
out
what
it
meant
,
and
the
third
horseman
seemed
to
be
waiting
for
us
to
come
up
.
It
was
no
use
.
We
had
been
seen
.
So
we
rode
slowly
on
,
trembling
.
He
let
us
pass
--
a
man
on
a
grey
horse
with
his
hat
down
on
his
eyes
--
without
a
word
of
greeting
;
but
by-and-by
we
heard
him
galloping
after
us
.
We
faced
about
,
but
that
did
not
seem
to
intimidate
him
.
He
rode
up
at
speed
,
and
touching
my
foot
with
the
toe
of
his
boot
,
asked
me
for
a
cigar
,
with
a
blood-curdling
laugh
.
He
did
not
seem
armed
,
but
when
he
put
his
hand
back
to
reach
for
the
matches
I
saw
an
enormous
revolver
strapped
to
his
waist
.
I
shuddered
.
He
had
very
fierce
whiskers
,
Don
Carlos
,
and
as
he
did
not
offer
to
go
on
we
dared
not
move
.
At
last
,
blowing
the
smoke
of
my
cigar
into
the
air
through
his
nostrils
,
he
said
,
'
Senor
,
it
would
be
perhaps
better
for
you
if
I
rode
behind
your
party
.
You
are
not
very
far
from
Sulaco
now
.
Go
you
with
God
.
'
What
would
you
?
We
went
on
.
There
was
no
resisting
him
.
He
might
have
been
Hernandez
himself
;
though
my
servant
,
who
has
been
many
times
to
Sulaco
by
sea
,
assured
me
that
he
had
recognized
him
very
well
for
the
Capataz
of
the
Steamship
Company
's
Cargadores
.
Later
,
that
same
evening
,
I
saw
that
very
man
at
the
corner
of
the
Plaza
talking
to
a
girl
,
a
Morenita
,
who
stood
by
the
stirrup
with
her
hand
on
the
grey
horse
's
mane
.
"
"
I
assure
you
,
Senor
Hirsch
,
"
murmured
Charles
Gould
,
"
that
you
ran
no
risk
on
this
occasion
.
"
"
That
may
be
,
senor
,
though
I
tremble
yet
.
A
most
fierce
man
--
to
look
at
.
And
what
does
it
mean
?
A
person
employed
by
the
Steamship
Company
talking
with
salteadores
--
no
less
,
senor
;
the
other
horsemen
were
salteadores
--
in
a
lonely
place
,
and
behaving
like
a
robber
himself
!
A
cigar
is
nothing
,
but
what
was
there
to
prevent
him
asking
me
for
my
purse
?
"
