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One
day
Dicky
saw
Pasa
,
the
daughter
of
Madama
Ortiz
,
sitting
in
the
side-door
of
the
Hotel
de
los
Estranjeros
.
He
stopped
in
his
tracks
,
still
,
for
the
first
time
in
Coralio
;
and
then
he
sped
,
swift
as
a
deer
,
to
find
Vasquez
,
a
gilded
native
youth
,
to
present
him
.
The
young
men
had
named
Pasa
"
La
Santita
Naranjadita
.
"
Naranjadita
is
a
Spanish
word
for
a
certain
colour
that
you
must
go
to
more
trouble
to
describe
in
English
.
By
saying
"
The
little
saint
,
tinted
the
most
beautiful-delicate-slightly-orange-golden
,
"
you
will
approximate
the
description
of
Madama
Ortiz
's
daughter
.
La
Madama
Ortiz
sold
rum
in
addition
to
other
liquors
.
Now
,
you
must
know
that
the
rum
expiates
whatever
opprobrium
attends
upon
the
other
commodities
.
For
rum-making
,
mind
you
,
is
a
government
monopoly
;
and
to
keep
a
government
dispensary
assures
respectability
if
not
preëminence
.
Moreover
,
the
saddest
of
precisians
could
find
no
fault
with
the
conduct
of
the
shop
.
Customers
drank
there
in
the
lowest
of
spirits
and
fearsomely
,
as
in
the
shadow
of
the
dead
;
for
Madama
's
ancient
and
vaunted
lineage
counteracted
even
the
rum
's
behest
to
be
merry
.
For
,
was
she
not
of
the
Iglesias
,
who
landed
with
Pizarro
?
And
had
not
her
deceased
husband
been
comisionado
de
caminos
y
puentes
for
the
district
?
In
the
evenings
Pasa
sat
by
the
window
in
the
room
next
to
the
one
where
they
drank
,
and
strummed
dreamily
upon
her
guitar
.
And
then
,
by
twos
and
threes
,
would
come
visiting
young
caballeros
and
occupy
the
prim
line
of
chairs
set
against
the
wall
of
this
room
.
They
were
there
to
besiege
the
heart
of
"
La
Santita
.
"
Their
method
(
which
is
not
proof
against
intelligent
competition
)
consisted
of
expanding
the
chest
,
looking
valorous
,
and
consuming
a
gross
or
two
of
cigarettes
.
Even
saints
delicately
oranged
prefer
to
be
wooed
differently
.
Doña
Pasa
would
tide
over
the
vast
chasms
of
nicotinized
silence
with
music
from
her
guitar
,
while
she
wondered
if
the
romances
she
had
read
about
gallant
and
more
--
more
contiguous
cavaliers
were
all
lies
.
At
somewhat
regular
intervals
Madama
would
glide
in
from
the
dispensary
with
a
sort
of
drought-suggesting
gleam
in
her
eye
,
and
there
would
be
a
rustling
of
stiffly-starched
white
trousers
as
one
of
the
caballeros
would
propose
an
adjournment
to
the
bar
.
That
Dicky
Maloney
would
,
sooner
or
later
,
explore
this
field
was
a
thing
to
be
foreseen
.
There
were
few
doors
in
Coralio
into
which
his
red
head
had
not
been
poked
.
In
an
incredibly
short
space
of
time
after
his
first
sight
of
her
he
was
there
,
seated
close
beside
her
rocking
chair
.
There
were
no
back-against-the-wall
poses
in
Dicky
's
theory
of
wooing
.
His
plan
of
subjection
was
an
attack
at
close
range
.
To
carry
the
fortress
with
one
concentrated
,
ardent
,
eloquent
,
irresistible
escalade
--
that
was
Dicky
's
way
.
Pasa
was
descended
from
the
proudest
Spanish
families
in
the
country
.
Moreover
,
she
had
had
unusual
advantages
.
Two
years
in
a
New
Orleans
school
had
elevated
her
ambitions
and
fitted
her
for
a
fate
above
the
ordinary
maidens
of
her
native
land
.
And
yet
here
she
succumbed
to
the
first
red-haired
scamp
with
a
glib
tongue
and
a
charming
smile
that
came
along
and
courted
her
properly
.
