They were a good sample of the cavalry of the plains with which Pedro Montero had helped so much the victorious29 career of his brother the general. The influence which that man, brought up in coast towns, acquired in a short time over the plainsmen of the Republic can be ascribed only to a genius for treachery of so effective a kind that it must have appeared to those violent men but little removed from a state of utter savagery30, as the perfection of sagacity and virtue31. The popular lore32 of all nations testifies that duplicity and cunning, together with bodily strength, were looked upon, even more than courage, as heroic virtues33 by primitive34 mankind. To overcome your adversary35 was the great affair of life. Courage was taken for granted. But the use of intelligence awakened36 wonder and respect. Stratagems37, providing they did not fail, were honourable38; the easy massacre39 of an unsuspecting enemy evoked40 no feelings but those of gladness, pride, and admiration41. Not perhaps that primitive men were more faithless than their descendants of to-day, but that they went straighter to their aim, and were more artless in their recognition of success as the only standard of morality.
We have changed since. The use of intelligence awakens42 little wonder and less respect. But the ignorant and barbarous plainsmen engaging in civil strife43 followed willingly a leader who often managed to deliver their enemies bound, as it were, into their hands. Pedro Montero had a talent for lulling44 his adversaries45 into a sense of security. And as men learn wisdom with extreme slowness, and are always ready to believe promises that flatter their secret hopes, Pedro Montero was successful time after time. Whether only a servant or some inferior official in the Costaguana Legation in Paris, he had rushed back to his country directly he heard that his brother had emerged from the obscurity of his frontier commandancia. He had managed to deceive by his gift of plausibility46 the chiefs of the Ribierist movement in the capital, and even the acute agent of the San Tome mine had failed to understand him thoroughly47. At once he had obtained an enormous influence over his brother. They were very much alike in appearance, both bald, with bunches of crisp hair above their ears, arguing the presence of some negro blood. Only Pedro was smaller than the general, more delicate altogether, with an ape-like faculty48 for imitating all the outward signs of refinement49 and distinction, and with a parrot-like talent for languages. Both brothers had received some elementary instruction by the munificence50 of a great European traveller, to whom their father had been a body-servant during his journeys in the interior of the country. In General Montero’s case it enabled him to rise from the ranks. Pedrito, the younger, incorrigibly51 lazy and slovenly52, had drifted aimlessly from one coast town to another, hanging about counting-houses, attaching himself to strangers as a sort of valet-de-place, picking up an easy and disreputable living. His ability to read did nothing for him but fill his head with absurd visions. His actions were usually determined53 by motives55 so improbable in themselves as to escape the penetration56 of a rational person.
Thus at first sight the agent of the Gould Concession57 in Sta. Marta had credited him with the possession of sane58 views, and even with a restraining power over the general’s everlastingly59 discontented vanity. It could never have entered his head that Pedrito Montero, lackey60 or inferior scribe, lodged61 in the garrets of the various Parisian hotels where the Costaguana Legation used to shelter its diplomatic dignity, had been devouring62 the lighter63 sort of historical works in the French language, such, for instance as the books of Imbert de Saint Amand upon the Second Empire. But Pedrito had been struck by the splendour of a brilliant court, and had conceived the idea of an existence for himself where, like the Duc de Morny, he would associate the command of every pleasure with the conduct of political affairs and enjoy power supremely65 in every way. Nobody could have guessed that. And yet this was one of the immediate66 causes of the Monterist Revolution. This will appear less incredible by the reflection that the fundamental causes were the same as ever, rooted in the political immaturity67 of the people, in the indolence of the upper classes and the mental darkness of the lower.
Pedrito Montero saw in the elevation68 of his brother the road wide open to his wildest imaginings. This was what made the Monterist pronunciamiento so unpreventable. The general himself probably could have been bought off, pacified70 with flatteries, despatched on a diplomatic mission to Europe. It was his brother who had egged him on from first to last. He wanted to become the most brilliant statesman of South America. He did not desire supreme64 power. He would have been afraid of its labour and risk, in fact. Before all, Pedrito Montero, taught by his European experience, meant to acquire a serious fortune for himself. With this object in view he obtained from his brother, on the very morrow of the successful battle, the permission to push on over the mountains and take possession of Sulaco. Sulaco was the land of future prosperity, the chosen land of material progress, the only province in the Republic of interest to European capitalists. Pedrito Montero, following the example of the Duc de Morny, meant to have his share of this prosperity. This is what he meant literally71. Now his brother was master of the country, whether as President, Dictator, or even as Emperor — why not as an Emperor? — he meant to demand a share in every enterprise — in railways, in mines, in sugar estates, in cotton mills, in land companies, in each and every undertaking72 — as the price of his protection. The desire to be on the spot early was the real cause of the celebrated73 ride over the mountains with some two hundred llaneros, an enterprise of which the dangers had not appeared at first clearly to his impatience74. Coming from a series of victories, it seemed to him that a Montero had only to appear to be master of the situation. This illusion had betrayed him into a rashness of which he was becoming aware. As he rode at the head of his llaneros he regretted that there were so few of them. The enthusiasm of the populace reassured75 him. They yelled “Viva Montero! Viva Pedrito!” In order to make them still more enthusiastic, and from the natural pleasure he had in dissembling, he dropped the reins76 on his horse’s neck, and with a tremendous effect of familiarity and confidence slipped his hands under the arms of Senores Fuentes and Gamacho. In that posture77, with a ragged3 town mozo holding his horse by the bridle78, he rode triumphantly79 across the Plaza to the door of the Intendencia. Its old gloomy walls seemed to shake in the acclamations that rent the air and covered the crashing peals80 of the cathedral bells.
Pedro Montero, the brother of the general, dismounted into a shouting and perspiring81 throng82 of enthusiasts83 whom the ragged Nationals were pushing back fiercely. Ascending84 a few steps he surveyed the large crowd gaping85 at him. and the bullet-speckled walls of the houses opposite lightly veiled by a sunny haze86 of dust. The word “PORVENIR” in immense black capitals, alternating with broken windows, stared at him across the vast space; and he thought with delight of the hour of vengeance87, because he was very sure of laying his hands upon Decoud. On his left hand, Gamacho, big and hot, wiping his hairy wet face, uncovered a set of yellow fangs88 in a grin of stupid hilarity89. On his right, Senor Fuentes, small and lean, looked on with compressed lips. The crowd stared literally open-mouthed, lost in eager stillness, as though they had expected the great guerrillero, the famous Pedrito, to begin scattering90 at once some sort of visible largesse91. What he began was a speech. He began it with the shouted word “Citizens!” which reached even those in the middle of the Plaza. Afterwards the greater part of the citizens remained fascinated by the orator92’s action alone, his tip-toeing, the arms flung above his head with the fists clenched93, a hand laid flat upon the heart, the silver gleam of rolling eyes, the sweeping94, pointing, embracing gestures, a hand laid familiarly on Gamacho’s shoulder; a hand waved formally towards the little black-coated person of Senor Fuentes, advocate and politician and a true friend of the people. The vivas of those nearest to the orator bursting out suddenly propagated themselves irregularly to the confines of the crowd, like flames running over dry grass, and expired in the opening of the streets. In the intervals95, over the swarming96 Plaza brooded a heavy silence, in which the mouth of the orator went on opening and shutting, and detached phrases —“The happiness of the people,” “Sons of the country,” “The entire world, el mundo entiero”— reached even the packed steps of the cathedral with a feeble clear ring, thin as the buzzing of a mosquito. But the orator struck his breast; he seemed to prance97 between his two supporters. It was the supreme effort of his peroration98. Then the two smaller figures disappeared from the public gaze and the enormous Gamacho, left alone, advanced, raising his hat high above his head. Then he covered himself proudly and yelled out, “Ciudadanos!” A dull roar greeted Senor Gamacho, ex-pedlar of the Campo, Commandante of the National Guards.
Upstairs Pedrito Montero walked about rapidly from one wrecked100 room of the Intendencia to another, snarling101 incessantly102 —
“What stupidity! What destruction!”
Senor Fuentes, following, would relax his taciturn disposition103 to murmur —
“It is all the work of Gamacho and his Nationals;” and then, inclining his head on his left shoulder, would press together his lips so firmly that a little hollow would appear at each corner. He had his nomination104 for Political Chief of the town in his pocket, and was all impatience to enter upon his functions.
In the long audience room, with its tall mirrors all starred by stones, the hangings torn down and the canopy105 over the platform at the upper end pulled to pieces, the vast, deep muttering of the crowd and the howling voice of Gamacho speaking just below reached them through the shutters106 as they stood idly in dimness and desolation.
“The brute107!” observed his Excellency Don Pedro Montero through clenched teeth. “We must contrive108 as quickly as possible to send him and his Nationals out there to fight Hernandez.”
The new Gefe Politico only jerked his head sideways, and took a puff109 at his cigarette in sign of his agreement with this method for ridding the town of Gamacho and his inconvenient110 rabble.
Pedrito Montero looked with disgust at the absolutely bare floor, and at the belt of heavy gilt111 picture-frames running round the room, out of which the remnants of torn and slashed112 canvases fluttered like dingy113 rags.
“We are not barbarians,” he said.
This was what said his Excellency, the popular Pedrito, the guerrillero skilled in the art of laying ambushes114, charged by his brother at his own demand with the organization of Sulaco on democratic principles. The night before, during the consultation115 with his partisans116, who had come out to meet him in Rincon, he had opened his intentions to Senor Fuentes —
“We shall organize a popular vote, by yes or no, confiding117 the destinies of our beloved country to the wisdom and valiance of my heroic brother, the invincible118 general. A plebiscite. Do you understand?”
And Senor Fuentes, puffing119 out his leathery cheeks, had inclined his head slightly to the left, letting a thin, bluish jet of smoke escape through his pursed lips. He had understood.
His Excellency was exasperated120 at the devastation121. Not a single chair, table, sofa, etagere or console had been left in the state rooms of the Intendencia. His Excellency, though twitching122 all over with rage, was restrained from bursting into violence by a sense of his remoteness and isolation123. His heroic brother was very far away. Meantime, how was he going to take his siesta124? He had expected to find comfort and luxury in the Intendencia after a year of hard camp life, ending with the hardships and privations of the daring dash upon Sulaco — upon the province which was worth more in wealth and influence than all the rest of the Republic’s territory. He would get even with Gamacho by-and-by. And Senor Gamacho’s oration99, delectable125 to popular ears, went on in the heat and glare of the Plaza like the uncouth126 howlings of an inferior sort of devil cast into a white-hot furnace. Every moment he had to wipe his streaming face with his bare fore-arm; he had flung off his coat, and had turned up the sleeves of his shirt high above the elbows; but he kept on his head the large cocked hat with white plumes127. His ingenuousness128 cherished this sign of his rank as Commandante of the National Guards. Approving and grave murmurs129 greeted his periods. His opinion was that war should be declared at once against France, England, Germany, and the United States, who, by introducing railways, mining enterprises, colonization130, and under such other shallow pretences131, aimed at robbing poor people of their lands, and with the help of these Goths and paralytics, the aristocrats132 would convert them into toiling133 and miserable134 slaves. And the leperos, flinging about the corners of their dirty white mantas, yelled their approbation135. General Montero, Gamacho howled with conviction, was the only man equal to the patriotic136 task. They assented137 to that, too.
The morning was wearing on; there were already signs of disruption, currents and eddies138 in the crowd. Some were seeking the shade of the walls and under the trees of the Alameda. Horsemen spurred through, shouting; groups of sombreros set level on heads against the vertical139 sun were drifting away into the streets, where the open doors of pulperias revealed an enticing140 gloom resounding141 with the gentle tinkling142 of guitars. The National Guards were thinking of siesta, and the eloquence143 of Gamacho, their chief, was exhausted144. Later on, when, in the cooler hours of the afternoon, they tried to assemble again for further consideration of public affairs, detachments of Montero’s cavalry camped on the Alameda charged them without parley145, at speed, with long lances levelled at their flying backs as far as the ends of the streets. The National Guards of Sulaco were surprised by this proceeding146. But they were not indignant. No Costaguanero had ever learned to question the eccentricities147 of a military force. They were part of the natural order of things. This must be, they concluded, some kind of administrative148 measure, no doubt. But the motive54 of it escaped their unaided intelligence, and their chief and orator, Gamacho, Commandante of the National Guard, was lying drunk and asleep in the bosom149 of his family. His bare feet were upturned in the shadows repulsively150, in the manner of a corpse151. His eloquent152 mouth had dropped open. His youngest daughter, scratching her head with one hand, with the other waved a green bough69 over his scorched and peeling face.
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adversaries
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