General Miramón then loyally offered to the President of the Supreme8 Court of Justice to assume the executive power and convoke9 the assembly of the Notables to have himself elected chief magistrate10 of the Republic. While this was happening, a new catastrophe added fresh dangers to the situation. Miramón, whom his continual victories had probably endowed with imprudent confidence, or more probably impelled11 by the desire to come to an end in some way or another, offered battle at Silao to forces four times his own. He suffered a complete rout12, lost his artillery, and was himself on the point of perishing: it was only by performing prodigies13 of valour, and killing14 with his own hand several of those that surrounded him, that he succeeded in cutting his way out of the melée and escaping to Querétaro, where he arrived almost alone. From this place, Miramón, not allowing himself to be crushed by misfortunes, returned to Mexico, whose inhabitants thus learned simultaneously15 his defeat, his arrival, and his intention to offer himself for election.
The result did not disappoint the secret expectations of the general: he was elected President by the Chamber16 of Notables almost unanimously. The general, who knew how time pressed, took the oaths, and immediately entered on his duties. Although materially the defeat at Silao was almost nothing, still from a moral point of view the effect produced was immense. Miramón understood this: he actively17 employed himself in restoring a little order in the finances, creating resources, precarious18 but sufficient for the urgent necessities of the moment in raising fresh troops, and taking all the precautions that prudence19 suggested. Unfortunately the president was constrained20 to abandon several important points in order to concentrate his forces round Mexico, and these various movements, ill-understood by the people, alarmed them and made them apprehend21 approaching misfortunes. Under these circumstances, the president, wishing doubtless to satisfy public opinion and restore a little tranquillity22 to the capital, consented to enter into negotiations24 with his rival Juárez, which, if they did not lead to peace, might at any rate produce an armistice25 which would temporarily check bloodshed. Unluckily, a fresh complication rendered all hope of an arrangement impossible.
General Márquez had been sent to the relief of Guadalajara, which town, it was supposed continued successfully to resist the federal troops; but all at once, after the federals had carried off a conducta de plata belonging to English merchants, an armistice was concluded between the two belligerent26 corps27—an armistice with which the money of the conducta had no doubt a great deal to do—and General Castillo, commandant of Guadalajara, abandoned by the majority of his troops, found himself compelled to leave the town and take refuge on the Pacific: so that the federals, freed from this obstacle, combined against Márquez, defeated him, and destroyed his corps, the only one that still kept the field. The situation thus became more and more critical: the federals meeting with no further obstacle or resistance in their victorious28 march, rose up on all sides and every hope of negotiations was lost. Fighting must go on at all risks. The fall of Miramón, consequently, could only be a question of time: the general doubtless perfectly29 comprehended this, but he did not let it be seen, and, on the contrary, redoubled his ardour and activity in order to parry the incessantly30 rising embarrassments31 of his situation.
After appealing to all classes of society, the general at length resolved to apply to the clergy32, whom he had always supported and protected: they replied to his appeal, raised a tithe33 on their lands, and resolved to carry to the mint their gold and silver ornaments34, to be melted and placed at the disposal of the ex-executive power. Unfortunately, all these efforts were thrown away, the expenses increased in a ratio with the continually growing dangers of the situation, and ere long Miramón, after vainly employing all the expedients35 which his critical position suggested to him, found himself with an empty treasury36 and the sorrowful conviction that it was useless to dream of refilling it.
We have already had occasion to explain how as each State of the Mexican confederation remains37 in possession of the public funds during a period of revolution, the government sitting at Mexico finds itself almost continually in a state of utter penury38, because it only has the funds of the State of Mexico at its disposal, while its rivals, on the contrary, constantly beating up the country in all directions, not only stop the conductas de plata and appropriate very considerable sums without the slightest remorse39, but also plunder40 the exchequer41 of all the States they enter, carry off the money without the slightest scruple42, and thus find themselves in a position to carry on the war without disadvantage.
Now, that we have rapidly sketched43 the political situation in which Mexico was, we will resume our narrative44 in the early days of Nov. 18—, that is to say, about six weeks after the period when we interrupted it. Night was advancing, shadows were already invading the plain, the oblique45 beams of the setting sun, gradually expelled from the valleys, were still clinging to the snowy peaks of the mountains of Anahuac, which they tinged46 with vermillion hues47: the breeze rustled48 through the foliage49: vaqueros, mounted on horses as wild as themselves, were driving across the plain large herds50 which had wandered all day at liberty, but at night returned to the corral. In the distance could be heard tingling51 the mule52 bells of some belated arrieros, who were hurrying to reach the magnificent highway lined enormous aloes, contemporaries of Motecuhzoma, which runs to Mexico.
A traveller, mounted on a powerful horse and carefully wrapped in the folds of a cloak which was pulled up to his eyes, was slowly following the capricious windings53 of a narrow track which, cutting across country, joined at about two leagues from the town the high road from Mexico to Puebla, a road at this moment completely deserted54, not only on account of the approach of night, but also because the state of anarchy55 into which the country had so long been plunged56, had let loose numerous bands of brigands57 who, taking advantage of the circumstances and waging war in their own way, stripped without any distinction of political opinion both constitutionals and liberals, and emboldened58 by impunity59, did not always content themselves with the highway, but even entered the towns to carry on their depredations60. Still, the traveller to whom we allude61 appeared to trouble himself very little about the risks he ran, and continued his venturesome ride at the same quiet and gentle rate. He went on thus for about three-quarters of an hour, and was not more than a league from the city when, happening to raise his head, he perceived that he had reached a spot where the track parted and ran to the right and left: he halted with evident hesitation62, but a moment later took the right hand track. The traveller, after going in this direction for about ten minutes appeared to know where he was, for he gave his horse a slight touch of the spur, and made it break into a long trot63. Ere long he reached a pile of blackened ruins, scattered64 disorderly over the ground, and near which grew a clump65 of trees whose long branches overshadowed the earth around them for a considerable distance. On reaching this spot, the horseman halted, and after looking searchingly around him, evidently to make sure that he was alone, he dismounted, sat down comfortably on a sod of grass, leaned against a tree, threw back his cloak and revealed the pale worn features of the wounded man whom we saw conducted to the rancho by Dominique, the vaquero.
Don Antonio de Cacerbar, for such was his name, only appeared the shadow of his former self—a sort of mournful spectre. His whole life appeared concentrated in his eyes, which flashed with a sinister66 gleam like those of fawns67; but in this body, apparently68 so weak, it could be seen that an ardent69 mind and energetic will were enclosed, and that this man, who had emerged a victor from an obstinate70 struggle with death, was pursuing with unswerving obstinacy71 the execution of dark resolutions previously72 formed by him. Scarce cured from his frightful73 wound, still very weak, and only enduring with extreme difficulty the fatigue74 of a long ride, he had, for all that, imposed silence on his sufferings, to come thus at nightfall nearly three leagues from Mexico to a rendezvous75 which he had himself requested. The motives76 for such conduct, especially in his state of weakness, must be of very great importance to him.
A few minutes elapsed, during which don Antonio, with his arms crossed on his chest, and his eyes closed, reflected, and in all probability prepared himself for the interview he was about to have with the person he had come so far to see. All at once a sound of horses, mingled77 with the clank of sabres, announced that a rather large troop of horsemen was approaching the spot where don Antonio was waiting. He drew himself up, looked nervously78 in the direction whence the noise came, and rose, doubtless to receive his visitor. They were fifty in number. They halted about fifteen paces from the ruins, but remained in the saddle. Only one of them dismounted, threw his bridle79 to a horseman, and walked up to don Antonio, who, on his side, advanced to meet him.
"Who are you?" don Antonio asked in a low voice, when he was but five or six yards from the stranger.
"The man you are expecting, se?or don Antonio," the other immediately replied; "Coronel don Felipe Neri Irzabel, at your service."
"Yes, it is you. I recognize you. Approach."
"It is very lucky. Well, se?or don Antonio," the colonel replied, offering his hand; "and your health?"
"Bad," said don Antonio, falling back without touching80 the hand that the guerillero offered him.
The latter did not notice this movement, or, if he did, attached no importance to it.
"You have come with a large escort," don Antonio continued.
"Caray! Do you fancy, my dear sir, that I have any wish to fall into the hands of Miramón's scouts81? My account would be soon settled if they caught me. But I fancy that in spite of all the pleasure we feel at meeting, we had better attend to business without delay. What is your opinion?"
"I wish for nothing better."
"The general thanks you for the last information you sent him—it was scrupulously82 exact; hence he has sworn to reward you as you deserve, so soon as the occasion offers."
Don Antonio made a gesture of disgust.
"Have you the paper?" he asked, with some degree of eagerness.
"Of course," the colonel answered.
"Drawn83 up as I requested?"
"Everything is in it, se?or, so set your mind at rest," the colonel continued, with a coarse laugh.
"Where could honesty be found at the present day, except among people of our stamp? What you stipulated84 is accepted. The whole is signed, 'Ortega, General-in-Chief of the Federal Army,' and countersigned85, 'Juárez, President of the Republic.' Are you satisfied?"
"I will answer you, se?or, when I have seen the paper."
"Nothing easier. Here it is," the guerillero said, drawing a large envelope from his dolman, and presenting it to don Antonio.
The latter seized it with a movement of joy, and broke the seal with a febrile hand.
"You will have a difficulty in reading at this moment," the colonel said, with a knowing look.
"Do you think so?" don Antonio asked, ironically.
"Haugh! It is very dark, it strikes me."
"That is of no consequence. I will soon have a light:" and rubbing a lucifer match on a stone, he lit a rolled up taper86, which he drew from his pocket.
As he read, a lively satisfaction was legible on his face. At length he put out the taper, folded up the paper, which he carefully secured in his pocketbook, and then addressed the colonel.
"Se?or, you will thank General Ortega from me. He has behaved toward me like a perfect caballero."
The guerillero bowed. "I will not fail, se?or," he answered; "especially if you have some information to add to that which you have already given us."
"I certainly have, and of a very important nature."
"Ah! Ah!" said the other, rubbing his hands eagerly; "pray let me have it, my dear se?or."
"Listen, then. Miramón is at the last gasp87. He wants money, and cannot possibly obtain any. The troops, nearly all recruits, badly armed, and worse clothed, have not been paid for two months, and are murmuring."
"Very good! Poor dear Miramón! He is in a very bad way, then?"
"The worse for him is, that the clergy, who promised at the outset to come to his assistance, have now refused their help."
"But," the guerillero remarked, ironically, "how is it that you are so well informed, my dear sir?"
"Do you not know that I am attaché to the Spanish Embassy?"
"That is true—I forgot it; pray excuse me. What more do you know?"
"The ranks of the partisans88 of the president are daily growing thinner: his old friends are abandoning him. Hence, in order to raise him slightly in public opinion, he has resolved to attempt a sortie, and attack General Berriozábal's division."
"Come, come! That is worth knowing!"
"You are warned."
"Thanks! We will be on our guard. Is that all?"
"Not yet. Reduced, as I told you, to the last extremity89, and wishing to procure90 money—no matter by what means, Miramón has resolved to imitate the robbery of the conducta of 'Laguna Seca,' effected by your party."
"I know," the colonel interrupted, rubbing his hands. "It was I who carried out that negotiation23. Unfortunately," he added, with a sigh of regret, "such hauls are rare."
"Miramón has therefore resolved," don Antonio continued, "to carry off the money of the Convention, which is at this moment at the British Legation."
"That is a superb idea! Those fiends of heretics will be furious! Who is the man of genius who suggested to him this idea, which will infallibly ruin him with England? For the gringos do not understand jests in money matters."
"I am aware of it: and hence the idea was suggested through my influence!"
"Se?or!" the guerillero said majestically91; "In this instance you have deserved well of your country. But the amount cannot be large?"
"It is a tolerably round sum."
"Ah, ah! How much at a guess?"
"Six hundred and sixty thousand piastres (￡132,000)."
The guerillero was dazzled.
"Caray!" he exclaimed, with conviction; "I lay down my arms before him. He is stronger than I. The affair of the Laguna Seca was nothing in comparison. But with this sum, hang it all! He will be in a condition to recommence the war."
"It is too late now; we have arranged for that, and the money will be spent in a few days," don Antonio remarked with an ugly smile: "trust to us for that."
"May Heaven grant it!"
"Such, for the present, is all the information it is possible for me to give you; I consider it tolerably important."
"Caray," the guerillero exclaimed, "it could not be more so."
"I hope, in a few days, to give you some of a more serious nature."
"Here?"
"Here at the same hour, and by means of the same signal."
"That is settled. Ah! the general will be highly delighted to learn all this."
"Now let us come to our second matter—that which concerns us two alone; what have you done since I saw you last?"
"Not much; I have not the means at this moment to enter into the difficult researches with which you commissioned me."
"And yet the reward is a fine one."
"I do not say it is not," the guerillero replied absently.
Don Antonio gave him a piercing glance.
"Do you doubt my word?" he said haughtily92.
"It is my principle never to doubt anything, se?or," the colonel answered.
"The sum is a large one."
"That is the very thing that terrifies me."
"What do you mean? Explain yourself, don Felipe."
"On my word," he exclaimed, suddenly making up his mind, "it is, I believe, the best thing I can do, so listen to me."
"Speak."
"Above all, do not be vexed93, my dear se?or; business is business, hang it all, and must be treated on the square."
"That is my opinion too, go on."
"Well, then, you offered me fifty thousand piastres to—"
"I know what for, so pass over it."
"I am quite agreeable: now fifty thousand piastres form a considerable sum; I have only your word as security."
"Is it not sufficient?"
"Not quite. I know very well that between gentlemen a word is a bond; but where business is concerned, it is no longer so. I believe you to be very rich, as you say you are, and as you offer me fifty thousand piastres; but what proof have I that when the moment arrives to pay me you will be in a position to do so, however good your will may be?"
Don Antonio, while the guerillero was laying down the matter so distinctly, suffered from a dull wrath94, which was twenty times on the point of bursting forth95, but fortunately he restrained it, and succeeded in retaining his coolness.
"Well, then, what do you desire?" he asked him in a choking voice.
"Nothing for the present, se?or; let us finish our resolution. So soon as we enter Mexico—which I hope both for you and me will not be long first—you will take me to a banker I know: he will be responsible for the sum, and all will be settled. Does that suit you?"
"I can't help myself; but till then?"
"We have more pressing matters to attend to. Some days more or less are of no consequence, and now that we have nothing more to say to each other for the present, permit me to take leave of you, my dear sir."
"You are at liberty to retire, se?or," don Antonio replied drily.
"I kiss your hands, my dear sir, and trust I shall see you again shortly."
"Farewell."
Don Felipe bowed cavalierly to the Spaniard, turned on his heels, rejoined his cuadrilla, and set off at full speed, followed by his partisans.
As for don Antonio, he went back pensively96 and slowly to Mexico, where he arrived two hours later.
"Oh!" he muttered, as he pulled up before the house he occupied in the Calle de Tacuba; "In spite of heaven and hell I will succeed."
What was the meaning of these sinister words which seem to contain the result of his long meditation97?
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