Las Cumbres form a succession of defiles2 in the mountains, through which winds, with infinite meanderings, the road that runs to Puebla de los ángeles (the town of the Angels), so called, because the angels, according to tradition, built the cathedral there. The road to which we allude4, made by the Spaniards, runs along the side of the mountains with curves of extraordinary boldness, and is bordered on either side by an unbroken line of abrupt5 peaks, bathed in a bluish vapour at each turn of this road, which is, as it were, suspended over precipices6 clad with a luxurious7 vegetation. The scene changes, and grows more and more picturesque8. The mountain peaks no longer rise behind one another, but gradually sink into the plain, while on the other hand, those left behind rise perpendicularly9.
On July 2nd, 18—, about four in the afternoon, at the moment when the sun, already low on the horizon, only shed its beams obliquely10 on the earth, calcined by the heat of the mediodía, and when the rising breeze was beginning to refresh the parching11 atmosphere, two horsemen, well mounted, emerged from a thick clump12 of yuccas, bananas, and purpled flowered bamboos, and turned into a dusty road, which led by a series of successive inclines to a valley in which a limpid13 stream ran through the verdure, and kept up its pleasant freshness.
The travellers, probably struck by the unexpected sight of the grand landscape which was so suddenly unfolded before them, stopped their horses, and after gazing for some minutes admiringly at the picturesque arrangement of the mountains, they dismounted, took off their horses' bridles15, and sat down on the bank of the stream, with the evident intention of enjoying for a few minutes longer the effects of this admirable kaleidoscope, which is unique in the world.
Judging from the direction they were following, the travellers appeared to come from Orizaba, and to be going to Puebla de los ángeles, whence they were at no great distance at the moment.
The two horsemen wore the attire16 of rich hacenderos, a costume which we have described too frequently to render a repetition necessary here: we will only mention one characteristic peculiarity17 rendered necessary by the slight degree of security on the roads at the time when our story takes place. Both were armed in a formidable manner, and carried with them a complete arsenal18. In addition to the six-shot revolvers in their holsters, others were thrust through their belts. They carried in their hand a first-rate double barrel, turned out by Devismes, the celebrated19 Parisian gunsmith; and thus each was enabled to fire twenty-six rounds, without counting the machete, or straight sabre, hanging at their side, the triangular-bladed knife thrust into the right boot, and the lasso, or reata, coiled on the saddle, to which it was securely attached by a carefully riveted20 iron ring.
Certainly if men thus armed were endowed with a fair amount of courage, they might face without disadvantage even a considerable number of enemies. However, they did not seem to trouble themselves at all about the wild and solitary21 aspect of the spot where they were, and conversed22 gaily23 while half reclining on the green grass, and carelessly smoking their cigars—real Havana puros.
The elder of the riders was a man of from forty to forty-five years, though he did not seem more than thirty-six, above the middle height; he was elegantly, though powerfully built, his well knit limbs denoted great bodily strength, he had marked features, and an energetic and intelligent countenance24; his black sparkling eyes, ever in motion, were soft, but at times emitted brilliant flashes, when they were animated25, and they then gave his face a harsh and savage26 expression impossible to describe; he had a lofty and spacious27 forehead, and sensual lips; a beard black and tufted like that of an Ethiopian, and mixed with silvery threads—fell on his chest; a luxuriant head of hair, thrown back, covered his shoulders, and his bronzed complexion28 was of a brick colour. In short, judging from his appearance, he was one of those determined29 men who are invaluable30 in certain critical circumstances, because a friend runs no risk of being deserted31 by them. Although it was impossible to distinguish his nationality, his brusque, sharp gestures, and his quick imperative32 speech, seemed to give him a Southern origin.
His companion—who was much younger, for he did not appear above twenty-eight years of age—was tall, rather thin, and delicate looking, though not at all sickly; his elegant slim stature33, and extremely small feet and hands, denoted high birth; his features were fine, his countenance pleasing and intelligent, and stamped with a great expression of gentleness; his blue eyes, light hair, and, above all, the whiteness of his complexion, caused him at once to be recognized as a European belonging to the temperate34 clime, recently landed in America.
We have said that the two travellers were conversing35 together, and the language they employed was French; the turn of their phrases, and the want of accent, led to the supposition that they were expressing themselves in their own language.
"Well, Count," said the elder, "do you regret having followed my advice, and instead of being jolted36 over execrable roads, undertaking37 this journey on horseback in the company of your humble38 servant?"
"By Jove! I should be very difficult to please were it so," the one to whom the title of count was given replied. "I have travelled through Switzerland, Italy, and the banks of the Rhine, like everybody else, and must confess that I never before saw such exquisite39 scenery as that which I have gazed on for the last few days—thanks to you."
"You are a thousand times too polite: the scenery is really very fine, and remarkably40 diversified," he added, with a sardonic41 expression which escaped his companion; "and yet," he remarked with a stifled42 sigh, "I have seen finer, still."
"Finer than this?" the count exclaimed, stretching out his arm, and describing a semicircle in the air; "Oh, sir, that is not possible."
"You are young, my lord," the first speaker resumed with a sad smile; "your tourist travels have only been child's play. This attracts you by the contrast it forms to the other scenery, that is all; having never studied nature except from an opera stall, you did not suppose that it could hold such surprises in reserve for you; your enthusiasm has been suddenly raised to a diapason, which intoxicates43 you through the strangeness of the contrasts which are incessantly44 offered you; but if, like myself, you had wandered over the savannahs of the interior, the immense prairies over which the wild children of this country, whom civilisation45 has despoiled46, roam in freedom—like myself, you would only have a smile of contempt for the scenery that surrounds us, and which at this moment you are admiring so conscientiously47."
"What you say may be true," Mr. Oliver; "unfortunately I am not acquainted with the savannahs and prairies to which you refer, and probably shall never see them."
"Why not?" the first speaker interposed quickly; "You are young, rich, strong, and free—at least I suppose so. What is there to prevent you attempting an excursion into the great American desert? You are in a capital position at this moment to carry out such an expedition; it is one of those journeys, reputed impossible, of which you will be able to speak with pride hereafter when you return to your own country."
"I should like it," the count answered with a tinge48 of melancholy49; "unluckily that is impossible, for my journey must terminate at Mexico."
"At Mexico?" Oliver repeated in surprise.
"Alas50! Yes, sir, so it is; I am not my own master, and am now obeying the influence of stranger's will. I have simply come to this country to be married."
"Married! At Mexico! you, my lord?" Oliver exclaimed in astonishment51.
"Yes," very prosaically52, "married to a woman I do not know, who does not know me either, and who doubtless feels no more love for me than I do for her: we are related—we were betrothed54 in the cradle, and now the moment has arrived to keep the promise made in our names by our parents—that is all."
"But in that case the young lady is French?"
"Not at all: she is Spanish, and I believe a bit of a Mexican."
"But you are a Frenchman?"
"Certainly, and from Touraine to boot," he replied with a smile.
"That being so, allow me to ask, sir, how it happens that—"
"Oh, very naturally so; my story will not be long, and as you seem inclined to hear it, I will tell it you in a very few words. You know my name—I am Count Ludovic Mahiet de la Saulay; my family, which belongs to the Touraine, is one of the oldest in that province, and goes back to the first Francs; one of my ancestors, so it is said, was one of the leaders of King Clovis, who gave him, as a reward for his faithful and valiant55 services, vast prairies bordered by willows56, from which my family afterwards derived57 its name. I do not tell you of this origin through any absurd feeling of pride. Though of noble birth, I have been educated, thank Heaven, in ideas of progress sufficiently58 wide for me to know the value of a title in the present age, and to recognize that true nobility dwells entirely59 in elevated sentiments. Still, I was obliged to tell you these details concerning my family in order that you might thoroughly60 understand how my ancestors—who always held high offices under the different dynasties that have succeeded each other in France—happened to have a younger branch of the family Spanish, while the elder remained French. At the epoch61 of the league, the Spaniards, summoned by the partisans62 of the Guises64, with whom they had formed an alliance against King Henry IV., then only called King of Navarre, were quartered for a rather lengthened65 period in Paris. I ask your pardon, my dear Mr. Oliver, for thus entering into details which may appear to you very wearisome."
"Pardon me, my lord, on the contrary, they greatly interest me; so pray go on."
The young man bowed and resumed—
"Now, the Count de Saulay—alive at that time—was an impetuous partisan63 of the Guises, and a very intimate friend of the Duke of Mayence; the count had three children—two sons, who fought in the ranks of the army of the League, and a daughter who was maid of honour to the Duchess of Montpensier, the sister of the Duke of Mayence. The siege of Paris lasted a long time, it was even abandoned, then resumed by Henry IV, who eventually bought for ready money a city which he despaired of seizing, and which the Duc de Brissac, Governor of the Bastille for the league, sold him. Many of the officers serving under the Duke de Mendoza, Commander of the Spanish troops, and that general himself, had their families with them. In short, the younger son of my ancestor fell in love with one of the Spanish general's nieces, asked her in marriage, and obtained her hand; while his sister consented, by the persuasion66 of the Duchess of Montpensier, to give hers to one of the general's aides-de-camp. The artificial and politic67 duchess, thought by these alliances to keep the French nobility aloof68 from him whom she called, the Béarnais and the Huguenot, and retard69 his triumph if she did not render it impossible. As usually happens in such cases, her calculations proved to be false. The king re-conquered his kingdom, and those gentlemen most compromised in the troubles of the league, found themselves compelled to follow the Spaniards on their retreat, and leave France with them. My ancestor easily obtained his pardon of the king, who even deigned70 at a later date to give him an important command, and take his elder son into his service; but the younger, in spite of the entreaties71 and injunction of his father, never consented to return to France, and settled permanently72 in Spain. Still, though separated, the two branches of the family continued to maintain relations, and to intermarry. My grandfather married during the emigration a daughter of the Spanish branch: it is now my turn to contract a similar alliance. You see, my dear sir, that all this is very prosaic53, and not at all interesting."
"Then you are willing, with your eyes shut as it were, to marry a person you have never seen, and whom you do not even know?"
"What would you have? So matters are; my consent is useless in the affair; the engagement was solemnly made by my father, and I must honour his word. Besides," he added with a smile, "my presence here proves to you that I did not hesitate to obey. Perhaps, had my will been free, I should not have contracted this union; unfortunately it did not depend on me, and I was obliged to conform to my father's wishes. However, I must confess to you that having been brought up with the continual prospect73 of this marriage, and knowing it to be inevitable74, I have gradually accustomed myself to the thought of contracting it, and the sacrifice is not so great to me as you might suppose."
"No matter," Oliver said with some degree of rudeness; "to the deuce with nobility and fortune if they impose such obligations—better a life of adventure in the desert and poor independence; at any rate you are your own master."
"I am perfectly75 of your opinion; but for all that, I must bow my head. Now, will you permit me to ask you a question?"
"Of course, most readily—two if you like."
"How is it that we—who met by accident at the French hotel in Veracruz, just after I had landed—have become so quickly and intimately attached?"
"As for that, it is impossible for me to answer. You pleased me at first sight, your manner attracted me. I offered you my services; you accepted them, and we started together for Mexico. That is the whole story. When we arrive there we shall separate, doubtless, never to meet again, and all will be settled."
"Oh! Oh! Mr. Oliver, permit me to believe that you are mistaken; that, on the contrary, we shall meet frequently, and that our acquaintance will soon become a solid friendship."
The other shook his head several times.
"My lord," he said at length, "you are a gentleman, rich, and of good standing76 in the world; while I am but an adventurer, of whose past life you are ignorant, and whose name you scarce know, even supposing the one I bear at this moment is real; our positions are too different; there is between us a line of demarcation too distinctly traced for us ever to stand on a footing of suitable equality toward each other. So soon as we have re-entered civilisation, I feel—for I am older than you, and have a greater experience of the world—that I should soon become a burden to you; hence do not insist on this point, but let us both remain in our place. This, be convinced, will be better both for you and me. I am at this moment your guide rather than your friend, and this position is the only one that suits me: leave it to me."
The count was preparing to reply; but Oliver sharply seized his arm.
"Silence," he said; "listen—"
"I hear nothing," the young man remarked at the end of a moment.
"That is true," the other replied with a smile; "your ears are not like mine, open to every sound that troubles the silence of the desert; a carriage is rapidly coming up from the direction of Orizaba, and is following the same route as ourselves; you will soon see it appear, for I can perfectly distinguish the tinkling77 of the mule78 bells."
"It is doubtless the Veracruz diligence, in which my servants and luggage are, and which we are only a few hours ahead of."
"Perhaps it is; perhaps it is not. I should be surprised if it had caught us up so quickly."
"What does it matter to us?" the count said.
"Nothing, that is true, if it is the diligence," the other replied after a moment's reflection; "at any rate it is as well to take our precautions."
"Precautions, why?" the young man asked in astonishment.
Oliver gave him a look of singular meaning.
"You know nothing as yet about American life," he said presently; "in Mexico, the first law of existence is always to put yourself on guard against the possible chances of an ambuscade. Follow me, and do what you see me do."
"Are we going to conceal79 ourselves?"
"Of course," he said, with a shrug80 of his shoulders.
Without any further reply, he went up to his horse, which he re-bridled, and leapt into the saddle with a lightness and dexterity81 denoting great practice, and then started at a gallop82 for a clump of liquidambars, distant a hundred yards at the most.
The count, involuntarily overpowered by the ascendancy83 which this man had contrived84 to obtain over him through his strange mode of dealing85 since they had been travelling together, jumped into the saddle and went after him.
"Good!" said the adventurer, as soon as they found themselves completely sheltered behind the trees; "Now let us wait."
Some minutes elapsed.
"Look!" Oliver said laconically86, stretching out his hand in the direction of the little wood from which they had themselves emerged two hours previously87.
The count mechanically turned his head in the direction; at the same instant some ten irregular horsemen, armed with sabres and long lances, entered the valley at a gallop, and proceeded along the road towards the first defile3 of the Cumbres.
"Soldiers of the Veracruz President," the young man muttered; "what is the meaning of this?"
"Wait," the adventurer remarked.
The rolling of a carriage soon became distinct, and a berlin appeared, dragged at a tremendous pace by a team of six mules88.
"Maldición!" the adventurer exclaimed with an angry gesture on perceiving the carriage.
The young man looked at his companion: the latter was pale as a corpse89, and a convulsive tremor90 ran over all his limbs.
"What is the matter?" the count asked him with interest.
"Nothing," he answered drily; "look—"
Behind the carriage a second squadron of cavalry91 came up at a gallop, following it at a slight distance, and raising clouds of dust as they passed.
Ere long cavalry and berlin entered the defile, when they soon disappeared.
"Confound it," the young man said with a laugh; "those are prudent92 travellers, at any rate; they will not run a risk of being plundered93 by the salteadores."
"Do you think so?" Oliver asked with an accent of biting sarcasm94. "Well, you are mistaken, for they will be attacked within an hour, and probably by the soldiers paid to defend them."
"Nonsense—that is impossible."
"Would you like to see it?"
"Yes, for the rarity of the fact."
"You will have to take care though, for possibly powder may be burned."
"I hope so too."
"Then you are resolved to defend these travellers?"
"Certainly, if they are attacked."
"I repeat that they will be attacked."
"In that case we will fight."
"That will do: are you a good rider?"
"Don't trouble yourself about me; when you pass I will."
"Well, then, in Heaven's name, we have only just the time to get there; and mind and keep an eye on your horse, for on my soul, we are about to have such a ride as you never saw."
The two riders leaned over their steeds' necks, and loosing the bridle14, while at the same time digging in the spurs, they started on the track of the travellers.
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