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"
No
,
no
,
Senor
Hirsch
,
"
Charles
Gould
murmured
,
letting
his
glance
stray
away
a
little
vacantly
from
the
round
face
,
with
its
hooked
beak
upturned
towards
him
in
an
almost
childlike
appeal
.
"
If
it
was
the
Capataz
de
Cargadores
you
met
--
and
there
is
no
doubt
,
is
there
?
--
you
were
perfectly
safe
.
"
"
Thank
you
.
You
are
very
good
.
A
very
fierce-looking
man
,
Don
Carlos
.
He
asked
me
for
a
cigar
in
a
most
familiar
manner
.
What
would
have
happened
if
I
had
not
had
a
cigar
?
I
shudder
yet
.
What
business
had
he
to
be
talking
with
robbers
in
a
lonely
place
?
"
But
Charles
Gould
,
openly
preoccupied
now
,
gave
not
a
sign
,
made
no
sound
.
The
impenetrability
of
the
embodied
Gould
Concession
had
its
surface
shades
.
To
be
dumb
is
merely
a
fatal
affliction
;
but
the
King
of
Sulaco
had
words
enough
to
give
him
all
the
mysterious
weight
of
a
taciturn
force
.
His
silences
,
backed
by
the
power
of
speech
,
had
as
many
shades
of
significance
as
uttered
words
in
the
way
of
assent
,
of
doubt
,
of
negation
--
even
of
simple
comment
.
Some
seemed
to
say
plainly
,
"
Think
it
over
"
;
others
meant
clearly
,
"
Go
ahead
"
;
a
simple
,
low
"
I
see
,
"
with
an
affirmative
nod
,
at
the
end
of
a
patient
listening
half-hour
was
the
equivalent
of
a
verbal
contract
,
which
men
had
learned
to
trust
implicitly
,
since
behind
it
all
there
was
the
great
San
Tome
mine
,
the
head
and
front
of
the
material
interests
,
so
strong
that
it
depended
on
no
man
's
goodwill
in
the
whole
length
and
breadth
of
the
Occidental
Province
--
that
is
,
on
no
goodwill
which
it
could
not
buy
ten
times
over
.
But
to
the
little
hook-nosed
man
from
Esmeralda
,
anxious
about
the
export
of
hides
,
the
silence
of
Charles
Gould
portended
a
failure
.
Evidently
this
was
no
time
for
extending
a
modest
man
's
business
.
He
enveloped
in
a
swift
mental
malediction
the
whole
country
,
with
all
its
inhabitants
,
partisans
of
Ribiera
and
Montero
alike
;
and
there
were
incipient
tears
in
his
mute
anger
at
the
thought
of
the
innumerable
ox-hides
going
to
waste
upon
the
dreamy
expanse
of
the
Campo
,
with
its
single
palms
rising
like
ships
at
sea
within
the
perfect
circle
of
the
horizon
,
its
clumps
of
heavy
timber
motionless
like
solid
islands
of
leaves
above
the
running
waves
of
grass
.
There
were
hides
there
,
rotting
,
with
no
profit
to
anybody
--
rotting
where
they
had
been
dropped
by
men
called
away
to
attend
the
urgent
necessities
of
political
revolutions
.
The
practical
,
mercantile
soul
of
Senor
Hirsch
rebelled
against
all
that
foolishness
,
while
he
was
taking
a
respectful
but
disconcerted
leave
of
the
might
and
majesty
of
the
San
Tome
mine
in
the
person
of
Charles
Gould
.
He
could
not
restrain
a
heart-broken
murmur
,
wrung
out
of
his
very
aching
heart
,
as
it
were
.
"
It
is
a
great
,
great
foolishness
,
Don
Carlos
,
all
this
.
The
price
of
hides
in
Hamburg
is
gone
up
--
up
.
Of
course
the
Ribierist
Government
will
do
away
with
all
that
--
when
it
gets
established
firmly
.
Meantime
--
"
He
sighed
.
"
Yes
,
meantime
,
"
repeated
Charles
Gould
,
inscrutably
.
The
other
shrugged
his
shoulders
.
But
he
was
not
ready
to
go
yet
.
There
was
a
little
matter
he
would
like
to
mention
very
much
if
permitted
.
It
appeared
he
had
some
good
friends
in
Hamburg
(
he
murmured
the
name
of
the
firm
)
who
were
very
anxious
to
do
business
,
in
dynamite
,
he
explained
.
A
contract
for
dynamite
with
the
San
Tome
mine
,
and
then
,
perhaps
,
later
on
,
other
mines
,
which
were
sure
to
--
The
little
man
from
Esmeralda
was
ready
to
enlarge
,
but
Charles
interrupted
him
.
It
seemed
as
though
the
patience
of
the
Senor
Administrador
was
giving
way
at
last
.
