A table, a chair, a wooden bedstead had been procured13 for His Excellency, who, after a short siesta14, rendered absolutely necessary by the labours and the pomps of his entry into Sulaco, had been getting hold of the administrative15 machine by making appointments, giving orders, and signing proclamations. Alone with Charles Gould in the audience room, His Excellency managed with his well-known skill to conceal his annoyance16 and consternation17. He had begun at first to talk loftily of confiscation18, but the want of all proper feeling and mobility19 in the Senor Administrador’s features ended by affecting adversely20 his power of masterful expression. Charles Gould had repeated: “The Government can certainly bring about the destruction of the San Tome mine if it likes; but without me it can do nothing else.” It was an alarming pronouncement, and well calculated to hurt the sensibilities of a politician whose mind is bent21 upon the spoils of victory. And Charles Gould said also that the destruction of the San Tome mine would cause the ruin of other undertakings22, the withdrawal23 of European capital, the withholding24, most probably, of the last instalment of the foreign loan. That stony25 fiend of a man said all these things (which were accessible to His Excellency’s intelligence) in a coldblooded manner which made one shudder26.
A long course of reading historical works, light and gossipy in tone, carried out in garrets of Parisian hotels, sprawling27 on an untidy bed, to the neglect of his duties, menial or otherwise, had affected28 the manners of Pedro Montero. Had he seen around him the splendour of the old Intendencia, the magnificent hangings, the gilt29 furniture ranged along the walls; had he stood upon a dais on a noble square of red carpet, he would have probably been very dangerous from a sense of success and elevation30. But in this sacked and devastated31 residence, with the three pieces of common furniture huddled32 up in the middle of the vast apartment, Pedrito’s imagination was subdued33 by a feeling of insecurity and impermanence. That feeling and the firm attitude of Charles Gould who had not once, so far, pronounced the word “Excellency,” diminished him in his own eyes. He assumed the tone of an enlightened man of the world, and begged Charles Gould to dismiss from his mind every cause for alarm. He was now conversing34, he reminded him, with the brother of the master of the country, charged with a reorganizing mission. The trusted brother of the master of the country, he repeated. Nothing was further from the thoughts of that wise and patriotic35 hero than ideas of destruction. “I entreat36 you, Don Carlos, not to give way to your anti-democratic prejudices,” he cried, in a burst of condescending37 effusion.
Pedrito Montero surprised one at first sight by the vast development of his bald forehead, a shiny yellow expanse between the crinkly coal-black tufts of hair without any lustre38, the engaging form of his mouth, and an unexpectedly cultivated voice. But his eyes, very glistening39 as if freshly painted on each side of his hooked nose, had a round, hopeless, birdlike stare when opened fully40. Now, however, he narrowed them agreeably, throwing his square chin up and speaking with closed teeth slightly through the nose, with what he imagined to be the manner of a grand seigneur.
In that attitude, he declared suddenly that the highest expression of democracy was Caesarism: the imperial rule based upon the direct popular vote. Caesarism was conservative. It was strong. It recognized the legitimate41 needs of democracy which requires orders, titles, and distinctions. They would be showered upon deserving men. Caesarism was peace. It was progressive. It secured the prosperity of a country. Pedrito Montero was carried away. Look at what the Second Empire had done for France. It was a regime which delighted to honour men of Don Carlos’s stamp. The Second Empire fell, but that was because its chief was devoid42 of that military genius which had raised General Montero to the pinnacle43 of fame and glory. Pedrito elevated his hand jerkily to help the idea of pinnacle, of fame. “We shall have many talks yet. We shall understand each other thoroughly44, Don Carlos!” he cried in a tone of fellowship. Republicanism had done its work. Imperial democracy was the power of the future. Pedrito, the guerrillero, showing his hand, lowered his voice forcibly. A man singled out by his fellow-citizens for the honourable45 nickname of El Rey de Sulaco could not but receive a full recognition from an imperial democracy as a great captain of industry and a person of weighty counsel, whose popular designation would be soon replaced by a more solid title. “Eh, Don Carlos? No! What do you say? Conde de Sulaco — Eh? — or marquis . . .”
He ceased. The air was cool on the Plaza46, where a patrol of cavalry47 rode round and round without penetrating48 into the streets, which resounded49 with shouts and the strumming of guitars issuing from the open doors of pulperias. The orders were not to interfere50 with the enjoyments51 of the people. And above the roofs, next to the perpendicular52 lines of the cathedral towers the snowy curve of Higuerota blocked a large space of darkening blue sky before the windows of the Intendencia. After a time Pedrito Montero, thrusting his hand in the bosom53 of his coat, bowed his head with slow dignity. The audience was over.
Charles Gould on going out passed his hand over his forehead as if to disperse54 the mists of an oppressive dream, whose grotesque55 extravagance leaves behind a subtle sense of bodily danger and intellectual decay. In the passages and on the staircases of the old palace Montero’s troopers lounged about insolently56, smoking and making way for no one; the clanking of sabres and spurs resounded all over the building. Three silent groups of civilians57 in severe black waited in the main gallery, formal and helpless, a little huddled up, each keeping apart from the others, as if in the exercise of a public duty they had been overcome by a desire to shun58 the notice of every eye. These were the deputations waiting for their audience. The one from the Provincial59 Assembly, more restless and uneasy in its corporate60 expression, was overtopped by the big face of Don Juste Lopez, soft and white, with prominent eyelids61 and wreathed in impenetrable solemnity as if in a dense62 cloud. The President of the Provincial Assembly, coming bravely to save the last shred63 of parliamentary institutions (on the English model), averted64 his eyes from the Administrador of the San Tome mine as a dignified65 rebuke66 of his little faith in that only saving principle.
The mournful severity of that reproof67 did not affect Charles Gould, but he was sensible to the glances of the others directed upon him without reproach, as if only to read their own fate upon his face. All of them had talked, shouted, and declaimed in the great sala of the Casa Gould. The feeling of compassion68 for those men, struck with a strange impotence in the toils69 of moral degradation70, did not induce him to make a sign. He suffered from his fellowship in evil with them too much. He crossed the Plaza unmolested. The Amarilla Club was full of festive71 ragamuffins. Their frowsy heads protruded72 from every window, and from within came drunken shouts, the thumping73 of feet, and the twanging of harps74. Broken bottles strewed75 the pavement below. Charles Gould found the doctor still in his house.
Dr. Monygham came away from the crack in the shutter76 through which he had been watching the street.
“Ah! You are back at last!” he said in a tone of relief. “I have been telling Mrs. Gould that you were perfectly77 safe, but I was not by any means certain that the fellow would have let you go.”
“Neither was I,” confessed Charles Gould, laying his hat on the table.
“You will have to take action.”
The silence of Charles Gould seemed to admit that this was the only course. This was as far as Charles Gould was accustomed to go towards expressing his intentions.
“I hope you did not warn Montero of what you mean to do,” the doctor said, anxiously.
“I tried to make him see that the existence of the mine was bound up with my personal safety,” continued Charles Gould, looking away from the doctor, and fixing his eyes upon the water-colour sketch78 upon the wall.
“He believed you?” the doctor asked, eagerly.
“God knows!” said Charles Gould. “I owed it to my wife to say that much. He is well enough informed. He knows that I have Don Pepe there. Fuentes must have told him. They know that the old major is perfectly capable of blowing up the San Tome mine without hesitation79 or compunction. Had it not been for that I don’t think I’d have left the Intendencia a free man. He would blow everything up from loyalty80 and from hate — from hate of these Liberals, as they call themselves. Liberals! The words one knows so well have a nightmarish meaning in this country. Liberty, democracy, patriotism81, government — all of them have a flavour of folly82 and murder. Haven’t they, doctor? . . . I alone can restrain Don Pepe. If they were to — to do away with me, nothing could prevent him.”
“They will try to tamper83 with him,” the doctor suggested, thoughtfully.
“It is very possible,” Charles Gould said very low, as if speaking to himself, and still gazing at the sketch of the San Tome gorge84 upon the wall. “Yes, I expect they will try that.” Charles Gould looked for the first time at the doctor. “It would give me time,” he added.
“Exactly,” said Dr. Monygham, suppressing his excitement. “Especially if Don Pepe behaves diplomatically. Why shouldn’t he give them some hope of success? Eh? Otherwise you wouldn’t gain so much time. Couldn’t he be instructed to —”
Charles Gould, looking at the doctor steadily85, shook his head, but the doctor continued with a certain amount of fire —
“Yes, to enter into negotiations86 for the surrender of the mine. It is a good notion. You would mature your plan. Of course, I don’t ask what it is. I don’t want to know. I would refuse to listen to you if you tried to tell me. I am not fit for confidences.”
“What nonsense!” muttered Charles Gould, with displeasure.
He disapproved87 of the doctor’s sensitiveness about that far-off episode of his life. So much memory shocked Charles Gould. It was like morbidness88. And again he shook his head. He refused to tamper with the open rectitude of Don Pepe’s conduct, both from taste and from policy. Instructions would have to be either verbal or in writing. In either case they ran the risk of being intercepted89. It was by no means certain that a messenger could reach the mine; and, besides, there was no one to send. It was on the tip of Charles’s tongue to say that only the late Capataz de Cargadores could have been employed with some chance of success and the certitude of discretion90. But he did not say that. He pointed91 out to the doctor that it would have been bad policy. Directly Don Pepe let it be supposed that he could be bought over, the Administrador’s personal safety and the safety of his friends would become endangered. For there would be then no reason for moderation. The incorruptibility of Don Pepe was the essential and restraining fact. The doctor hung his head and admitted that in a way it was so.
He couldn’t deny to himself that the reasoning was sound enough. Don Pepe’s usefulness consisted in his unstained character. As to his own usefulness, he reflected bitterly it was also his own character. He declared to Charles Gould that he had the means of keeping Sotillo from joining his forces with Montero, at least for the present.
“If you had had all this silver here,” the doctor said, “or even if it had been known to be at the mine, you could have bribed92 Sotillo to throw off his recent Monterism. You could have induced him either to go away in his steamer or even to join you.”
“Certainly not that last,” Charles Gould declared, firmly. “What could one do with a man like that, afterwards — tell me, doctor? The silver is gone, and I am glad of it. It would have been an immediate93 and strong temptation. The scramble94 for that visible plunder95 would have precipitated96 a disastrous97 ending. I would have had to defend it, too. I am glad we’ve removed it — even if it is lost. It would have been a danger and a curse.”
“Perhaps he is right,” the doctor, an hour later, said hurriedly to Mrs. Gould, whom he met in the corridor. “The thing is done, and the shadow of the treasure may do just as well as the substance. Let me try to serve you to the whole extent of my evil reputation. I am off now to play my game of betrayal with Sotillo, and keep him off the town.”
She put out both her hands impulsively98. “Dr. Monygham, you are running a terrible risk,” she whispered, averting99 from his face her eyes, full of tears, for a short glance at the door of her husband’s room. She pressed both his hands, and the doctor stood as if rooted to the spot, looking down at her, and trying to twist his lips into a smile.
“Oh, I know you will defend my memory,” he uttered at last, and ran tottering100 down the stairs across the patio101, and out of the house. In the street he kept up. a great pace with his smart hobbling walk, a case of instruments under his arm. He was known for being loco. Nobody interfered102 with him. From under the seaward gate, across the dusty, arid103 plain, interspersed104 with low bushes, he saw, more than a mile away, the ugly enormity of the Custom House, and the two or three other buildings which at that time constituted the seaport105 of Sulaco. Far away to the south groves106 of palm trees edged the curve of the harbour shore. The distant peaks of the Cordillera had lost their identity of clearcut shapes in the steadily deepening blue of the eastern sky. The doctor walked briskly. A darkling shadow seemed to fall upon him from the zenith. The sun had set. For a time the snows of Higuerota continued to glow with the reflected glory of the west. The doctor, holding a straight course for the Custom House, appeared lonely, hopping107 amongst the dark bushes like a tall bird with a broken wing.
Tints108 of purple, gold, and crimson109 were mirrored in the clear water of the harbour. A long tongue of land, straight as a wall, with the grass-grown ruins of the fort making a sort of rounded green mound110, plainly visible from the inner shore, closed its circuit; while beyond the Placid111 Gulf112 repeated those splendours of colouring on a greater scale and with a more sombre magnificence. The great mass of cloud filling the head of the gulf had long red smears113 amongst its convoluted114 folds of grey and black, as of a floating mantle115 stained with blood. The three Isabels, overshadowed and clear cut in a great smoothness confounding the sea and sky, appeared suspended, purple-black, in the air. The little wavelets seemed to be tossing tiny red sparks upon the sandy beaches. The glassy bands of water along the horizon gave out a fiery116 red glow, as if fire and water had been mingled117 together in the vast bed of the ocean.
At last the conflagration118 of sea and sky, lying embraced and still in a flaming contact upon the edge of the world, went out. The red sparks in the water vanished together with the stains of blood in the black mantle draping the sombre head of the Placid Gulf; a sudden breeze sprang up and died out after rustling119 heavily the growth of bushes on the ruined earthwork of the fort. Nostromo woke up from a fourteen hours’ sleep, and arose full length from his lair120 in the long grass. He stood knee deep amongst the whispering undulations of the green blades with the lost air of a man just born into the world. Handsome, robust121, and supple122, he threw back his head, flung his arms open, and stretched himself with a slow twist of the waist and a leisurely123 growling124 yawn of white teeth, as natural and free from evil in the moment of waking as a magnificent and unconscious wild beast. Then, in the suddenly steadied glance fixed125 upon nothing from under a thoughtful frown, appeared the man.
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