Little work, little to eat and clean clothes: these were the conditions that Manuel found in the home of the baroness, and they were unsurpassable.
In the morning his duty was to take the baroness’s dogs out for a stroll; in the afternoon he had to run a few errands. At times, during the first days, he felt homesick for his wandering existence. Several issues of huge novels published in serial5 form, which Chucha lent him, allayed6 his passion for tramping about the streets and transported him, in company of Fernández y González and Tárrago y Mateos, to the life of the XVIIth century, with its braggart7 knights8 and its lovelorn ladies.
Ni?a Chucha, an eternal chatterbox, recounted to Manuel, in several instalments, the tale of her dear friend, as she called the baroness.
The Baroness de Aynant, Paquita Figueroa, was a queer woman. Her father, a wealthy Cuban gentleman, sent her at the age of eighteen, accompanied by an aunt, on a trip to Europe. On the steamer a young Flemish gentleman, fair and blond, as elegant as a Van Dyck portrait, had paid her much attention;[55] the girl had responded with all the ardent9 enthusiasm of the tropics, and within a month after their arrival in Spain, the Cuban miss was named the Baroness de Aynant, and left with her husband to take up their residence in Antwerp.
The honeymoon10 waned11, and both the Flemish gentleman and the Cuban wife, once they had settled down again to a tranquil12 existence, agreed that they were not a congenial, well-matched couple. He was devoted13 to the simple, methodical life, to the music of Beethoven and to meals prepared with cows’ butter; she, on the other hand, was fond of a wild time, of gadding14 about the fashionable promenades15; she loved a dry, hot climate, the music of Chueca, light meals and dishes made with oil.
These divergencies of taste in small matters, piling up, thickening, in time clouded completely the love of the baron2 and his wife. She could not let pass calmly the cold, tranquilly16 ironic17 remarks that her husband made concerning the sweet-potatoes, the oil and the accent of the southern peoples. The baron, in turn, was piqued18 to hear his wife speak scornfully of the greasy20 women who devote themselves to cramming21 down butter. The rivalry22 between oil and butter, embroiling23 itself, interweaving itself with their other affairs of greater importance, assumed such proportions that the couple reached the point of excitement and hatred24 leading to a separation. The baron remained in Antwerp dedicating himself to his artistic25 predilections26 and to his buttered toast, while the baroness came to Madrid,[56] where she could give free rein3 to her fondness for fruit and oily food.
In Madrid the baroness committed a thousand follies27. She tried to procure28 a divorce, that she might marry a ruined aristocrat29. But when her bill of divorcement was all prepared for filing, she learned that her husband was seriously ill, and no sooner did she get the news than she left Madrid, hurried to Antwerp, nursed the baron, saved his life, fell in love all over again and presented him with a baby girl.
During this second epoch30 of their love the couple threw a dense31 veil over the great question that had formerly32 divided them. The baroness and the baron made mutual33 concessions34, and the baroness was well on the way to becoming an excellent Flemish dame35 when she was left a widow.
She returned to Madrid with her daughter, and soon her Levantine instincts reawakened. Her brother-in-law, uncle and guardian36 of the child, helped her out with a monthly stipend37, but this was not enough. A friend of her father’s,—a certain Don Sergio Redondo, a very wealthy merchant,—offered her his hand; but the baroness did not accept, and preferred his patronage38 to being his wife. Soon she deceived him with another, and for twelve years she continued this duplicity.
In the midst of this squandering39, this madness and surrender to caprice, the baroness preserved a moral background, and withdrew her daughter completely from the world in which the mother dwelt. She placed her child in a convent school and every[57] month, the first money that she laid hands upon was used to pay for the girl’s tuition. When she had completed her education, the baroness intended to take her off to Antwerp and live there with her, resigning herself to the career of a respectable woman.
Ni?a Chucha would grumble40 and protest at her good friend’s whims41, but she always ended by obeying them.
Manuel found the house a paradise; he had nothing to do and would spend his idle hours smoking, if there were anything to smoke, or walking along the Moncloa, accompanied by the baroness’s three dogs.
In the meantime Mingote was hard at work. His plan was to exploit Don Sergio Redondo, friend of the baroness’s father and former protector of the lady. The latter, with the instincts of an intriguing42, deceitful wench, had informed her former protector that their relations had produced a boy; then she had told him that the boy had died, and afterward43, that the boy was still alive.
All these affirmations and denials the lady accompanied with a request for money, to which Don Sergio acceded44; until the victim, rendered suspicious, notified the baroness that he did not believe in the existence of that son. The baroness upbraided45 him as a miserable46 wretch47 and Don Sergio answered, pretending not to understand, and keeping a tight lock on his money-chest.
How had Mingote discovered these facts? Undoubtedly48 it had not been the baroness who told[58] him, but he ferreted them out none the less. And as his imagination was fertile, it occurred to him to propose to the baroness that she hunt up some boy, provide him with false documents and pass him off as Don Sergio’s son.
The baroness, who knew nothing whatever about the law and considered the Penal49 Code a net spread to catch vagabonds, seized upon the suggestion as a most excellent and fruitful plan. Mingote demanded a share in the profits and the baroness promised him all he should desire. From that moment Mingote set about searching for a youngster who would fulfill50 the conditions necessary to the deception51 of Don Sergio, and when he came upon Manuel, he brought him at once to the home of the baroness.
After he had been there a week, Manuel was already provided with the papers that identified him as Sergio Figueroa. Between Mingote, Don Pelayo the amanuensis, and a friend of theirs called Pe?alar, they forged them with most exquisite52 skill.
“And now what shall we do?” asked the baroness.
Mingote stood wrapped in thought. If the baroness were to write to Don Sergio, that old fellow, in all probability, since he was now suspicious, might take the whole matter sceptically. They must, therefore, discover some indirect procedure,—they must let him get the news from a third party.
“Suppose it were to be from a confessor? What do you think of that?” asked Mingote.
“A confessor?”
“Yes. A priest who would present himself in[59] Don Sergio’s home and inform him that, under the seal of confession53, you had told him....”
“No, no,” interrupted the baroness. “And where is this priest?”
“Pe?alar will go, in disguise.”
“No. Besides, Don Sergio knows that I’m not very religious.”
“Then perhaps a schoolmaster would be better.”
“But do you imagine that he’s going to believe I confess to a schoolmaster?”
“No. We’ll have to alter the plan. The master will go to see Don Sergio and tell him that he has a boy in his school, a young prodigy54, who is sadly neglected by his mother. One day he asks the prodigy: ‘What’s your father’s and mother’s name, my boy?’ And the boy replies: ‘I haven’t any father or mother; my step-mother is the Baroness de Aynant.’ Then he, the teacher, comes to see you and you tell him that you’re badly off and that you can’t pay the child’s tuition fee, and that his father, a wealthy gentleman, does not even care to know him. The evangelical master asks you several times for the name of this inhuman55 parent; you refuse to divulge56 it; but at last he wrests57 from your lips the name of that cruel creature. The sublime58 pedagogue59 then says: ‘I cannot permit the abandonment of this child, of this extraordinary child,’ and he determines to go to see the father of the child.... Well, what do you think of that?”
“Not a badly woven plot. But who’s going to play the schoolmaster? You?”
“No, Pe?alar. He was simply made for the[60] part. He was a tutor in a college; you’ll see. This very day I’ll hunt him up and bring him here. In the meantime, you prepare Manuel. Let him look somewhat like a schoolboy. While I’m out looking for Pe?alar, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for you to teach him a little,—the first questions and answers of the catechism, for example.”
In accordance with Mingote’s instructions, the baroness ordered Manuel to comb his hair and spruce up; then she fished out for him a sailor suit with a large white collar. Yet however much they might adorn61 him and ply60 their arts upon his person, it was impossible to make him look like a respectable youngster; his indifferent, roguish eyes and his smile, which was half bitter and half sarcastic62, betrayed the ragamuffin.
At two o’clock Mingote was back at the baroness’s home, with a dark man of clerical aspect. The man, named Pe?alar, spoke63 with great emphasis; then, when Mingote stated his proposition, Pe?alar, abandoning his emphatic64 tone, discussed the conditions of payment and the percentage due him.
He hesitated about accepting the commission, in order to see whether he could get more favourable65 terms, but, finding Mingote unyielding, he accepted.
“Let the boy come along with me this very minute.”
Pe?alar brushed the sleeves of his black frock coat, combed his hair back, and taking Manuel by the hand, said to him in a truly evangelical voice:
“Come, my child.”
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They reached the square and walked into the shop.
“He hasn’t come down to the office yet.”
“I’ll wait. Tell him that there’s a gentleman here who would like to see him.”
“Very well. And who shall I say is waiting for him?”
“No, he doesn’t know me. Just tell him that it’s a family matter. Sit down, my boy,” added Pe?alar, turning to Manuel, with a voice and a smile of purely68 evangelical unction.
Manuel took a seat, and Pe?alar let his gaze wander about the shop with the calmness and ease of one who is fully19 confident and aware of just what he is about.
The old man in the woolen cap soon reappeared.
“Step into the office,” and he pushed back a black screen set with striped panes69. “The master will be in presently.”
Pe?alar and Manuel entered a room lighted by a grated window, and sat down upon a green sofa. Opposite them rose a mahogany closet lined with business books; in the middle stood a writing desk with many drawers, and to one side of this, a safe with gilt70 knobs.
The room exhaled71 the spirit of an implacable merchant. One readily saw that this cage held an ugly bird. Manuel was terrified. Pe?alar himself,[62] perhaps, experienced a moment of weakness, but he swelled72 up with importance, twirled his moustaches, carefully adjusted his spectacles upon his nose and smiled.
Don Sergio did not keep them waiting long. He was a tall old fellow, with white moustaches, and a suspicious glance which he shot obliquely73 over the rim74 of his glasses. He wore a long frock coat, bright-coloured trousers, a skull75 cap of green velvet76 with a long tassel77 that hung down one side. He strode in without a greeting, and eyed the man and the boy with evident displeasure. They arose. Perhaps he even thought that he had divined the reason of the Visit, for in a dry, authoritarian78 voice, and without bidding them be seated, he asked Pe?alar:
“What do you wish, sir? Was it you who had something to say to me with reference to a family matter? You?”
Any other person would have been seized with a desire to strangle the old man. Not Pe?alar, however; difficult situations were his forte79, and most to his taste. He began to speak, unabashed by the inquisitorial glances of the merchant.
Manuel listened to him with a mingling80 of admiration81 and terror. He could see that the old man was growing angrier every second. Pe?alar spoke on unperturbed.
He was a poor captive soul, a sentimentalist, an idealist—ah!—devoted to the instruction of youth,—that youth in whose bosom83 repose84 the seeds of[63] the nation’s regeneration. He had suffered a great deal,—a great deal. He had been in the hospital. A man such as he, who knew French, English, German, who played the piano,—a man of his stamp, related to the entire aristocracy of the kingdom of León, a man who knew more theology and theodocy than all the priests rolled into one.
Ah! He did not say all this out of vainglory; but he had a right to life. Gómez Sánchez, the illustrious histologist, had once said to him:
“You ought not to work.”
“But I’m hungry.”
“Then beg.”
Wherefore sometimes he did beg.
Don Sergio, utterly85 astounded86 before this avalanche87 of words, made no attempt to interrupt Pe?alar. The latter paused, smiled unctuously88, noted89 that the force of habit had carried him on to his everlasting90 theme of the reason for his sponging on folks, and realizing that his eloquence91 was leading him astray, lowered his voice, continuing in a confidential92 tone:
“This our life is, despite all its drawbacks, so attractive,—is it not so, Don Sergio?—that one cannot leave it with indifference93. And yet I believe that death is liberation. Yes, I believe in the immortality94 of the soul, in the absolute dominion95 of spirit over matter. Not so in previous years. No, I must confess,” and he smiled more benignly96 than ever, “I was formerly a pantheist, and I still preserve, from that period, perhaps, an enthusiasm for[64] nature. Ah, the country! The country is my delight! Many a time I recall those verses of the Mantuan:
Te, dulcis conjux, te solo in litore secum
te veniente die, te decedente canebat.
“Are you fond of the country, Don Sergio? You really should be, with all the gifts you possess.”
Don Sergio’s anger, which had been rising together with Pe?alar’s incoherent verbosity97, exploded into one curt98 sentence:
Pe?alar stopped short with mouth agape.
“Sir, my dear sir,” added the merchant, raising his furious voice, “if you have plenty of time to waste, I haven’t.”
“I haven’t yet told you the reason for my visit,” said Pe?alar, removing his glasses and preparing to wipe them with his handkerchief.
“No, and it isn’t necessary. I can imagine it very well. I give no charity.”
“My worthy100 Se?or Don Sergio,” and Pe?alar arose, spectacles in hand, turning his short-sighted glances about the room, “you have made a grievous mistake. I have not come to ask alms nor is that a habit of mine. No one may contradict that statement. I have come,” and he placed his glasses resolutely101 in their position, “to fulfil a sacred duty.”
“Let’s be done with this. What sacred duty are you talking about? To the point! Enough of the farce. I hate charlatanry102.”
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“Allow me to have a seat. I am weary,” murmured Pe?alar in a frail103 voice. “Is any one within hearing?”
Don Sergio glared at him like a hyena104. Pe?alar passed his riddled105 handkerchief across his broad forehead; then, turning to Manuel, who was still regarding the scene in complete amazement106, he said to him:
“Please, my dear child, leave us alone for a moment and wait for me outside.”
Manuel opened the office door and walked out into the shop. This man?uvre caused Don Sergio to start back in bewilderment.
“I, my worthy sir,” said Pe?alar, as soon as he found himself alone with the merchant, “am dedicated107 to the education of youth.”
“You’re a schoolmaster? So I’ve already heard.”
“I was acting108 as examiner in the Colegio del Espíritu Santo, when it occurred to me to go into business on my own account.”
“And you lost money. Very well. But how does all this concern me?” shrilled109 Don Sergio, pounding upon the table with a book.
“I crave110 your pardon. Among my pupils I have this boy who has just left us. He is a prodigy, a youngster of extraordinary talents. When I saw how bright he was, how determined111, I conceived an interest in him; I inquired about his family, and was told that he had neither father nor mother, and had been taken into a certain lady’s home.”
“Well, what has all this got to do with me?”
“Patience, Don Sergio. I went to see this kind[66] lady, who is a baroness, and I said to her, ‘The boy whom you have taken into your home is worthy of the utmost encouragement. Something should be done for his education.’
“‘His mother has no means and his father, who is very wealthy, does nothing for him,’ was the baroness’s reply.
“‘Tell me who his father is, and I’ll go to see him,’ I said.
“‘It’s no use,’ she answered, ‘for you’ll get nothing out of him. His name is Don Sergio Redondo.’”
As he pronounced these words, Pe?alar got up, and with his head thrown back contemplated112 Don Sergio, even as the exterminating113 angel glances upon a poor reprobate114. Don Sergio turned frightfully pale, pulled out his handkerchief, rubbed his lips, hawked115. It was easily to be seen that he was perturbed82.
Pe?alar scrutinized116 the old man keenly, and noting that his arrogance117 was abating118, became more evangelical and moral than ever.
“The baroness,” he added, “said to me,—and you must pardon my undeviating sincerity—she said to me that you were an egotist and a heartless creature. But despite this,” and he smiled sweetly, feeling himself by now quite supermoral and superevangelic, “I thought: My duty is to go to see that gentleman. That is why I have come. Now you will do as your conscience dictates119. I have followed the dictates of mine.”
After this little speech Pe?alar had nothing more to add, and with the smile of the entire martyrology[67] upon his lips he took his hat, saluted120 most ceremoniously and drew near to the door.
“And that youngster is the boy who was here?” asked Don Sergio in a low, hesitant voice.
“That is he.”
“And where does this woman live,—this baroness?” exclaimed the merchant.
“I cannot tell you. I shall ask her first. If she authorizes121 me to tell, I will return with the answer.”
And Pe?alar left the office.
“Come along, my boy,” he said to Manuel.
And with proud, noble demeanour, head erect122, he left the place, leading his beloved pupil by the hand,—that portentous123 child so little appreciated by his parents.
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