"Ah, ah, ah!" he said, bursting into a hoarse2 laugh, and sinking again on the border of the hammock, "Was I so wrong in saying to you, my dear sir, that you entered my house for the purpose of assassinating3 me?"
The adventurer bit his lip savagely4, and the unlucky revolver.
"Well, no!" he exclaimed, in a loud voice; "No, I repeat, I will not kill you, for you are not worthy5 to die by the hand of an honest man; but I will compel you to confess the truth to me."
The young man looked at him with a singular expression. "Try it," he said, with a disdainful shrug6 of the shoulders.
Then he began carelessly rolling in his fingers a dainty husk cigarette, lit it, and while sending up to the ceiling a puff7 of blue and perfumed smoke, he said—
"Come, I am waiting for you."
"Good! This is what I propose to you: you are my prisoner, well, I will restore you to liberty if you will deliver do?a Dolores, I will not say into my hands, but into those of Count de la Saulay, her cousin, whom she is going to marry immediately."
"Hum! This is serious, my dear sir; please remember that I am my sister's legal guardian8."
"How her guardian?"
"Yes, since our father is dead."
"Don Andrés de la Cruz dead?" the adventurer exclaimed, leaping up.
"Alas9! Yes," the young man replied, hypocritically raising his eyes to heaven; "we had the grief of losing him the night before last, and he was buried yesterday morning; the poor old gentleman could not resist the frightful10 misfortunes which have overwhelmed our family. Sorrow crushed him: his end was most affecting."
There was a silence, during which Oliver walked up and down the room. All at once the adventurer stopped in front of the young man.
"Without any further circumlocution," he said to him, "will you, yes or no, restore your sister her liberty?"
"No!" Melchior replied, resolutely11.
"Good," the adventurer coldly remarked; "in that case, all the worse for you."
At this moment the door opened, and a tall and elegantly-dressed young man entered the room. At the sight of this young man a cunning smile illumined don Melchior's face.
"Eh!" he said, to himself, "Things may turn out differently from what this dear don Adolfo supposes."
The young man bowed politely, and walked up to the master of the house, with whom he shook hands.
"I am disturbing you?" he said, taking a careless glance at the supposed monk12.
"On the contrary, my dear don Diego, you could not arrive more opportunely13: but by what chance do I see you at so unusual an hour?"
"I have come to bring you good news: Count de la Saulay, your private enemy, is in our power; but, as he is a Frenchman, and certain considerations must be maintained, the general has decided14 to send him, under a good escort, to our most illustrious president. Another piece of good news, you are intrusted with the command of this escort."
"?Demonios!" don Melchior exclaimed, triumphantly15, "You are a good friend. But now it is my turn: look carefully at that monk, do you recognize him? Well, this man is no other than the adventurer called don Adolfo, don Olivero, don Jaime, or by a hundred names, who has so long been sought in vain."
"Can it be possible?" don Diego exclaimed.
"It is true," don Adolfo said.
"Within an hour you will be dead—shot like a traitor16 and bandit!" Melchior exclaimed.
Don Adolfo shrugged17 his shoulders contemptuously.
"It is evident," don Diego observed, "that this man will be shot; but the president alone has the right of deciding his fate, as he declares that he is a Frenchman."
"Why all the demons18 seem to belong to that accursed race!" don Melchior exclaimed, quite disconcerted.
"Well, really I cannot tell you exactly; as regards this man, as he is a daring fellow, and you might be considerably19 embarrassed by him, I will send him to the president under a separate escort."
"No, no, if you wish to do me a service; let me take him with me; do not be alarmed, I will take such precautions, that, clever as he is, he shall not escape me; still, it will be as well to disarm20 him."
The adventurer silently handed his weapons to don Diego. At this moment a footman came in, and announced that the escort was waiting in the street.
"Very good," said Melchior, "let us be off."
The servant gave his master a machete, a brace21 of pistols, and a sarape, and buckled22 on his spurs.
"Now we can start," said don Melchior.
"Come," said don Diego, "se?or don Adolfo, or whatever be your name, be kind enough to go first."
The adventurer obeyed without a word. Twenty-five or thirty soldiers attired23 in a rather fantastic uniform, mostly in rags, and resembling bandits, much more than honest soldiers, were waiting in the street.
These men were all well mounted and armed. In the midst of them were the Count de la Saulay, and his two servants under strict guard; a smile of joy lit up don Melchior's face at the sight of the gentleman; the latter did not deign24 to appear to notice his presence. A horse was prepared for don Adolfo; at a sign from don Diego he mounted, and placed himself of his own accord by the side of the count, with whom he shook hands. Don Melchior also mounted.
"Now, my friend," said don Diego, "a pleasant journey to you. I am going back to the government house."
"Good bye then," said Melchior, and the escort set out.
It was about two in the afternoon, the greatest heat of the day had passed, the shops were beginning to open again, and the tradesmen standing in the door watched the soldiers pass with a yawn. Don Melchior rode a few yards ahead of his troop; his demeanour was cold and sedate25, he made vain efforts to restrain the joy which he experienced on at length having his implacable enemies in his hands. After they had ridden some distance from the town, the lieutenant26 who commanded the escort, approached don Melchior.
"Our men are fatigued," he said to him, "it is time to think about camping for the night."
"I am willing to do so," the other replied, "provided that the spot is a secure one."
"I know a few paces from here," the lieutenant continued, "a deserted28 rancho, where we shall be very comfortable."
"Let us go there then."
The lieutenant acted as guide, and the soldiers soon entered a path scarce traced through a very thick wood, and at the end of about three quarters of an hour reached a large clearing, in the middle of which stood the announced rancho. The officer gave his men orders to dismount. The latter eagerly obeyed; for they seemed anxious to rest after their fatigue27.
Leaping from his horse, don Melchior entered the rancho, in order to assure himself of the condition it was in. But he had hardly set his foot in the interior, ere he was suddenly seized, rolled in a sarape, and bound and gagged, even before he had the time to attempt a useless defense29.
At the end of some minutes, he heard a clanking of sabres, and a regular sound of footsteps outside the rancho; the soldiers, or at least a portion of them, were going away, without paying any attention to him.
Almost at the same moment he was seized by the feet and shoulders, lifted up, and carried off. After a few rapid steps, it seemed to him as if his bearers were taking him down steps that entered the ground; then, after about ten minutes march, he was softly laid on a bed, composed of furs as he supposed, and left alone. An utter silence prevailed around the prisoner, he was really alone. At length a slight noise became audible, this noise gradually increased, and soon became loud; it resembled the walk of several persons, whose footsteps grated on sand.
This noise suddenly ceased. The young man felt himself lifted up and carried off once more. They carried him for a very considerable distance, and the bearers relieved each other at regular distances.
At length they stopped again; from the fresher and sharper air that smote30 his face, the prisoner conjectured31 that he had left the tunnel and was now in the open country. He was laid down on the ground.
"Set the prisoner at liberty," a voice said, whose dry metallic32 sound struck the young man.
His bonds were at once unfastened, and the gag and the handkerchief that covered his eyes removed.
Don Melchior leaped on his feet and looked around him. The spot where he found himself was the top of a rather lofty hill in the centre of an immense plain. The night was dark, and a little to the right in the distance gleamed like so many stars, the lights of the houses in Puebla. The young man formed the centre of a rather large group, drawn33 up in a circle round him. These men were masked, each of them held in his right hand a torch of ocote wood, whose flame agitated34 by the wind, threw a blood red hue35 over the country, and imparted to it a fantastic appearance. Don Melchior felt a shudder36 of terror run over his whole body, he understood that he was in the power of that mysterious Masonic association, of which he was himself a member, and which spread over the whole of Mexico, the gloomy ramifications37 of its formidable ventas. The silence was so profound on the hill, all the men so thoroughly38 resembled statues in their cold immobility, that the young man could hear his own heart beating in his breast.
A man stepped forward.
"Don Melchior de la Cruz," he said, "do you know where you are, and in whose presence?"
"I know it," he replied through his clenched39 teeth.
"Do you recognize the authority of the men by whom you are surrounded?"
"Yes, because they have the might on their side; any attempt at resistance or protest would be an act of folly40 on my part."
"No, it is not for that reason that you come under the authority of these men, and you are perfectly41 aware of the fact; but because you voluntarily connected yourself with them by a compact. In making this compact, you accepted their jurisdiction42, and gave them the right to be your judges, if you broke the oaths which you took of your own full accord—"
Don Melchior shrugged his disdainfully.
"Why should I attempt a useless defense?" he said; "for am I not condemned43 beforehand. Hence execute without further delay, the sentence which you have already tacitly pronounced."
The masked man darted44 at him a flashing glance through the openings in his mask.
"Don Melchior," he continued in a hard and deeply marked voice, "it is neither as parricide45, nor as fratricide, nor as robber, that you appear before this supreme46 tribunal, I repeat to you, but as a traitor to your country, I call on you to defend yourself."
"And I refuse to do so," he replied in a loud firm voice.
"Very good," the masked man continued coldly; then, planting his torch in the ground, he turned to the spectators. "Brothers," he said, "what punishment has this man deserved?"
"Death!" the masked men answered, in a hollow voice.
Don Melchior was not at all affected47.
"You are condemned to death," the man continued who had hitherto spoken. "The sentence will be executed at this spot. You have half an hour to prepare to meet your God."
"In what way shall I die?" the young man asked, carelessly.
"By the rope."
"That death as soon as another," he said, with an ironical48 smile.
"We do not arrogate49 the right of killing50 the soul with the body," the masked man continued; "a priest will hear the confession51 of your faults."
"Thanks!" the young man said, laconically52.
The masked man stood for a second, as if expecting that don Melchior would address another request to him; but seeing that he continued to maintain silence, he took up his torch again, fell back two paces, waved it thrice, and extinguished it beneath his foot. All the other torches were put out at the same moment. A slight rustling53 of dry leaves and broken branches was heard, and don Melchior found himself alone. Still, the young man did not deceive himself as to this apparent solitude54. He understood that his enemies, though invisible, continued to watch him. A man, however well tempered his mind may be, however great his energy, though he has looked death in the face a hundred times, when he is twenty years of age, that is to say, when he finds himself scarcely on the threshold of existence, and the future smiles on him through the intoxicating55 prism of youth, cannot thus completely forget himself, and, without any transition, pass from life to death, without feeling an utter and sudden enervation56 of all his intellectual faculties57, and suffering a horrible agony and nervous contraction58 of all his muscles, especially this death which awaits him full of life and youth, is inflicted59 on him coldly at night, and has an indelible brand of infamy60. Hence, spite of all his courage and resolution, don Melchior suffered an awful agony. At the root of every hair, which stood on end with terror, gathered a drop of cold perspiration61. His features were frightfully contracted, and a livid and earthy pallor covered his face. At this moment a hand was gently laid on his shoulder. He started as if he had received an electric shock, and sharply raised his head. A monk was standing before him, with his hood62 pulled down over his face.
"Ah!" he said, rising; "Here is the priest."
"Yes," said the monk in a low, but perfectly distinct voice; "kneel down, my son: I am prepared to receive your confession."
The young man started at the sound of this voice, which he fancied he recognized; and his ardent63 and scrutinizing64 glance was fixed65 on the monk standing motionless before him. The latter knelt down, making him a signal to imitate him. Don Melchior mechanically obeyed. These two men thus kneeling on the desert crest66 of this hill, faintly lit up by the feeble and flickering67 light of the lanthorns, which rendered the darkness that surrounded them on all sides more profound, offered a strange and striking spectacle.
"We are watched," said the monk. "Display no agitation68; keep your nerves quiet, and listen to me. We have not a moment to lose. Do you recognize me?"
"Yes," don Melchior said, faintly; who, feeling a friend at his side, involuntarily clung to hope, the sentiment which last survives in the human heart: "Yes, you are don Antonio de Cacerbar."
"Dressed in the garb69 I am now wearing," don Antonio continued; "I was on the point of entering Puebla, when I was suddenly surrounded by masked men, who asked me whether I was in orders? On my affirmative reply—a reply made at all hazards, in order not to destroy an incognito70 which is my sole safeguard against my enemies, these men carried me off with them, and brought me here. I witnessed your trial while shuddering71 with terror for myself, if I were recognized by these men, from whom I escaped once before solely72 by a miracle; but, whatever may happen, I am resolved to share your fate. Have you weapons?"
"No. But of what use are weapons against so large a body of enemies?"
"To fall bravely, instead of being ignominiously73 hung."
"That is true!" the young man exclaimed.
"Silence, unhappy man!" don Antonio said, sharply. "Take this revolver and this dagger74. I have the same for myself."
"All right!" he said, clutching the weapons to his chest; "Now I am no longer afraid of them."
"Good! That is how I wished you to feel. Remember this: the horses are waiting ready saddled down there on the right, at the foot of the hill. If we succeed in reaching them, we are saved."
"Whatever happens, thanks, don Antonio. If Heaven decrees that we shall escape—"
"Promise me nothing," don Antonio said, quickly; "there will be time hereafter to settle our accounts."
The monk gave his penitent75 absolution. A few minutes elapsed. At length don Melchior rose with a firm and assured countenance76, for he was certain of not dying unavenged. The masked men suddenly reappeared, and once more crowned the top of the hill. The one who hitherto had alone spoken, approached the condemned man, by whose side don Antonio had stationed himself, as if to exhort77 him in his last moments.
"Are you ready?" the stranger asked.
"I am," don Melchior coldly replied.
"Prepare the gallows78, and light the torches!" the masked man ordered.
There was a great movement in the crowd, and a momentary79 disorder80. The members were so convinced that flight was impossible, and besides, it was so improbable that the condemned man should attempt to escape his fate, that for two or three minutes they relaxed their watchfulness81. Don Melchior and his friend took advantage of this moment of forgetfulness.
"Come!" don Antonio said, hurling82 to the earth the man nearest him. "Follow me!"
"All right!" don Melchior boldly replied, as he cocked his revolver, and drew his knife.
They rushed head foremost into the midst of the conspirators83, striking right and left, and forcing a passage. Like most desperate actions, this one succeeded through its sheer madness. There was a gigantic melée, a frightful struggle for some minutes between the members, who were taken off their guard, and the two men who were resolved to escape, or perish with arms in their hands. Then the furious gallop84 of horses became audible, and a mocking voice shouting in the distance,—
"Farewell, for the present!"
Don Melchior and don Antonio were galloping85 at full speed along the Puebla road. All hope of catching86 them was lost: however, they had left sanguinary traces behind them—ten corpses87 lay on the ground.
"Stop!" don Adolfo shouted to the men who were running to their horses. "Let them fly. Don Melchior is condemned—his death is certain. But," he added, thoughtfully; "who can that accursed monk be?"
Leo Carral, the majordomo, leaned over to his ear.
"I recognized the monk," he said; "he was don Antonio de Cacerbar."
"Ah!" he said, passionately88; "That man again!"
A few minutes later, a cavalcade89, composed of about a dozen horsemen, were trotting90 sharply along the high road to the capital. This party was led by don Jaime, or Oliver, or Adolfo, whichever the reader may please to call him.
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