Not that Don Jose anticipated anything of the sort. He could not praise enough dear Carlos’s tact2 and courage. His English, rock-like quality of character was his best safeguard, Don Jose affirmed; and, turning to Mrs. Gould, “As to you, Emilia, my soul”— he would address her with the familiarity of his age and old friendship —“you are as true a patriot3 as though you had been born in our midst.”
This might have been less or more than the truth. Mrs. Gould, accompanying her husband all over the province in the search for labour, had seen the land with a deeper glance than a trueborn Costaguanera could have done. In her travel-worn riding habit, her face powdered white like a plaster cast, with a further protection of a small silk mask during the heat of the day, she rode on a well-shaped, light-footed pony4 in the centre of a little cavalcade5. Two mozos de campo, picturesque6 in great hats, with spurred bare heels, in white embroidered7 calzoneras, leather jackets and striped ponchos8, rode ahead with carbines across their shoulders, swaying in unison9 to the pace of the horses. A tropilla of pack mules10 brought up the rear in charge of a thin brown muleteer, sitting his long-eared beast very near the tail, legs thrust far forward, the wide brim of his hat set far back, making a sort of halo for his head. An old Costaguana officer, a retired12 senior major of humble13 origin, but patronized by the first families on account of his Blanco opinions, had been recommended by Don Jose for commissary and organizer of that expedition. The points of his grey moustache hung far below his chin, and, riding on Mrs. Gould’s left hand, he looked about with kindly14 eyes, pointing out the features of the country, telling the names of the little pueblos15 and of the estates, of the smooth-walled haciendas like long fortresses16 crowning the knolls18 above the level of the Sulaco Valley. It unrolled itself, with green young crops, plains, woodland, and gleams of water, park-like, from the blue vapour of the distant sierra to an immense quivering horizon of grass and sky, where big white clouds seemed to fall slowly into the darkness of their own shadows.
Men ploughed with wooden ploughs and yoked20 oxen, small on a boundless21 expanse, as if attacking immensity itself. The mounted figures of vaqueros galloped22 in the distance, and the great herds23 fed with all their horned heads one way, in one single wavering line as far as eye could reach across the broad potreros. A spreading cotton-wool tree shaded a thatched ranche by the road; the trudging24 files of burdened Indians taking off their hats, would lift sad, mute eyes to the cavalcade raising the dust of the crumbling25 camino real made by the hands of their enslaved forefathers26. And Mrs. Gould, with each day’s journey, seemed to come nearer to the soul of the land in the tremendous disclosure of this interior unaffected by the slight European veneer27 of the coast towns, a great land of plain and mountain and people, suffering and mute, waiting for the future in a pathetic immobility of patience.
She knew its sights and its hospitality, dispensed28 with a sort of slumbrous dignity in those great houses presenting long, blind walls and heavy portals to the wind-swept pastures. She was given the head of the tables, where masters and dependants29 sat in a simple and patriarchal state. The ladies of the house would talk softly in the moonlight under the orange trees of the courtyards, impressing upon her the sweetness of their voices and the something mysterious in the quietude of their lives. In the morning the gentlemen, well mounted in braided sombreros and embroidered riding suits, with much silver on the trappings of their horses, would ride forth30 to escort the departing guests before committing them, with grave good-byes, to the care of God at the boundary pillars of their estates. In all these households she could hear stories of political outrage31; friends, relatives, ruined, imprisoned32, killed in the battles of senseless civil wars, barbarously executed in ferocious33 proscriptions, as though the government of the country had been a struggle of lust34 between bands of absurd devils let loose upon the land with sabres and uniforms and grandiloquent35 phrases. And on all the lips she found a weary desire for peace, the dread36 of officialdom with its nightmarish parody37 of administration without law, without security, and without justice.
She bore a whole two months of wandering very well; she had that power of resistance to fatigue38 which one discovers here and there in some quite frail-looking women with surprise — like a state of possession by a remarkably39 stubborn spirit. Don Pepe — the old Costaguana major — after much display of solicitude40 for the delicate lady, had ended by conferring upon her the name of the “Never-tired Senora.” Mrs. Gould was indeed becoming a Costaguanera. Having acquired in Southern Europe a knowledge of true peasantry, she was able to appreciate the great worth of the people. She saw the man under the silent, sad-eyed beast of burden. She saw them on the road carrying loads, lonely figures upon the plain, toiling41 under great straw hats, with their white clothing flapping about their limbs in the wind; she remembered the villages by some group of Indian women at the fountain impressed upon her memory, by the face of some young Indian girl with a melancholy42 and sensual profile, raising an earthenware43 vessel44 of cool water at the door of a dark hut with a wooden porch cumbered with great brown jars. The solid wooden wheels of an ox-cart, halted with its shafts45 in the dust, showed the strokes of the axe46; and a party of charcoal47 carriers, with each man’s load resting above his head on the top of the low mud wall, slept stretched in a row within the strip of shade.
The heavy stonework of bridges and churches left by the conquerors48 proclaimed the disregard of human labour, the tribute-labour of vanished nations. The power of king and church was gone, but at the sight of some heavy ruinous pile overtopping from a knoll19 the low mud walls of a village, Don Pepe would interrupt the tale of his campaigns to exclaim —
“Poor Costaguana! Before, it was everything for the Padres, nothing for the people; and now it is everything for those great politicos in Sta. Marta, for negroes and thieves.”
Charles talked with the alcaldes, with the fiscales, with the principal people in towns, and with the caballeros on the estates. The commandantes of the districts offered him escorts — for he could show an authorization49 from the Sulaco political chief of the day. How much the document had cost him in gold twenty-dollar pieces was a secret between himself, a great man in the United States (who condescended50 to answer the Sulaco mail with his own hand), and a great man of another sort, with a dark olive complexion52 and shifty eyes, inhabiting then the Palace of the Intendencia in Sulaco, and who piqued53 himself on his culture and Europeanism generally in a rather French style because he had lived in Europe for some years — in exile, he said. However, it was pretty well known that just before this exile he had incautiously gambled away all the cash in the Custom House of a small port where a friend in power had procured54 for him the post of subcollector. That youthful indiscretion had, amongst other inconveniences, obliged him to earn his living for a time as a cafe waiter in Madrid; but his talents must have been great, after all, since they had enabled him to retrieve55 his political fortunes so splendidly. Charles Gould, exposing his business with an imperturbable56 steadiness, called him Excellency.
The provincial57 Excellency assumed a weary superiority, tilting58 his chair far back near an open window in the true Costaguana manner. The military band happened to be braying59 operatic selections on the plaza60 just then, and twice he raised his hand imperatively61 for silence in order to listen to a favourite passage.
“Exquisite, delicious!” he murmured; while Charles Gould waited, standing62 by with inscrutable patience. “Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor! I am passionate63 for music. It transports me. Ha! the divine — ha! — Mozart. Si! divine . . . What is it you were saying?”
Of course, rumours64 had reached him already of the newcomer’s intentions. Besides, he had received an official warning from Sta. Marta. His manner was intended simply to conceal65 his curiosity and impress his visitor. But after he had locked up something valuable in the drawer of a large writing-desk in a distant part of the room, he became very affable, and walked back to his chair smartly.
“If you intend to build villages and assemble a population near the mine, you shall require a decree of the Minister of the Interior for that,” he suggested in a business-like manner.
“I have already sent a memorial,” said Charles Gould, steadily66, “and I reckon now confidently upon your Excellency’s favourable67 conclusions.”
The Excellency was a man of many moods. With the receipt of the money a great mellowness68 had descended51 upon his simple soul. Unexpectedly he fetched a deep sigh.
“Ah, Don Carlos! What we want is advanced men like you in the province. The lethargy — the lethargy of these aristocrats69! The want of public spirit! The absence of all enterprise! I, with my profound studies in Europe, you understand —”
With one hand thrust into his swelling70 bosom71, he rose and fell on his toes, and for ten minutes, almost without drawing breath, went on hurling72 himself intellectually to the assault of Charles Gould’s polite silence; and when, stopping abruptly73, he fell back into his chair, it was as though he had been beaten off from a fortress17. To save his dignity he hastened to dismiss this silent man with a solemn inclination74 of the head and the words, pronounced with moody75, fatigued76 condescension77 —
“You may depend upon my enlightened goodwill78 as long as your conduct as a good citizen deserves it.”
He took up a paper fan and began to cool himself with a consequential79 air, while Charles Gould bowed and withdrew. Then he dropped the fan at once, and stared with an appearance of wonder and perplexity at the closed door for quite a long time. At last he shrugged80 his shoulders as if to assure himself of his disdain81. Cold, dull. No intellectuality. Red hair. A true Englishman. He despised him.
His face darkened. What meant this unimpressed and frigid82 behaviour? He was the first of the successive politicians sent out from the capital to rule the Occidental Province whom the manner of Charles Gould in official intercourse83 was to strike as offensively independent.
Charles Gould assumed that if the appearance of listening to deplorable balderdash must form part of the price he had to pay for being left unmolested, the obligation of uttering balderdash personally was by no means included in the bargain. He drew the line there. To these provincial autocrats84, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing85 and truculence86. Gradually all of them discovered that, no matter what party was in power, that man remained in most effective touch with the higher authorities in Sta. Marta.
This was a fact, and it accounted perfectly87 for the Goulds being by no means so wealthy as the engineer-in-chief on the new railway could legitimately88 suppose. Following the advice of Don Jose Avellanos, who was a man of good counsel (though rendered timid by his horrible experiences of Guzman Bento’s time), Charles Gould had kept clear of the capital; but in the current gossip of the foreign residents there he was known (with a good deal of seriousness underlying89 the irony) by the nickname of “King of Sulaco.” An advocate of the Costaguana Bar, a man of reputed ability and good character, member of the distinguished90 Moraga family possessing extensive estates in the Sulaco Valley, was pointed91 out to strangers, with a shade of mystery and respect, as the agent of the San Tome mine —“political, you know.” He was tall, black-whiskered, and discreet92. It was known that he had easy access to ministers, and that the numerous Costaguana generals were always anxious to dine at his house. Presidents granted him audience with facility. He corresponded actively93 with his maternal94 uncle, Don Jose Avellanos; but his letters — unless those expressing formally his dutiful affection — were seldom entrusted95 to the Costaguana Post Office. There the envelopes are opened, indiscriminately, with the frankness of a brazen96 and childish impudence97 characteristic of some Spanish-American Governments. But it must be noted98 that at about the time of the re-opening of the San Tome mine the muleteer who had been employed by Charles Gould in his preliminary travels on the Campo added his small train of animals to the thin stream of traffic carried over the mountain passes between the Sta. Marta upland and the Valley of Sulaco. There are no travellers by that arduous99 and unsafe route unless under very exceptional circumstances, and the state of inland trade did not visibly require additional transport facilities; but the man seemed to find his account in it. A few packages were always found for him whenever he took the road. Very brown and wooden, in goatskin breeches with the hair outside, he sat near the tail of his own smart mule11, his great hat turned against the sun, an expression of blissful vacancy100 on his long face, humming day after day a love-song in a plaintive101 key, or, without a change of expression, letting out a yell at his small tropilla in front. A round little guitar hung high up on his back; and there was a place scooped102 out artistically103 in the wood of one of his pack-saddles where a tightly rolled piece of paper could be slipped in, the wooden plug replaced, and the coarse canvas nailed on again. When in Sulaco it was his practice to smoke and doze104 all day long (as though he had no care in the world) on a stone bench outside the doorway105 of the Casa Gould and facing the windows of the Avellanos house. Years and years ago his mother had been chief laundry-woman in that family — very accomplished106 in the matter of clear-starching. He himself had been born on one of their haciendas. His name was Bonifacio, and Don Jose, crossing the street about five o’clock to call on Dona Emilia, always acknowledged his humble salute107 by some movement of hand or head. The porters of both houses conversed108 lazily with him in tones of grave intimacy109. His evenings he devoted110 to gambling111 and to calls in a spirit of generous festivity upon the peyne d’oro girls in the more remote side-streets of the town. But he, too, was a discreet man.
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