Johnny's friends stood by him loyally. On the first day Keogh strolled into the store in a casual kind of way about once every hour, and bought shoes. After he had purchased a pair each of extension soles, congress gaiters, button kids, low-quartered calfs, dancing pumps, rubber boots, tans of various hues1, tennis shoes and flowered slippers2, he sought out Johnny to be prompted as to names of other kinds that he might inquire for. The other English-speaking residents also played their parts nobly by buying often and liberally. Keogh was grand marshal, and made them distribute their patronage5, thus keeping up a fair run of custom for several days.
Mr. Hemstetter was gratified by the amount of business done thus far; but expressed surprise that the natives were so backward with their custom.
"Oh, they're awfully6 shy," explained Johnny, as he wiped his forehead nervously7. "They'll get the habit pretty soon. They'll come with a rush when they do come."
"Got anything up your sleeve?" he inquired of Johnny. "If you have it's about time to show it. If you can borrow some gent's hat in the audience, and make a lot of customers for an idle stock of shoes come out of it, you'd better spiel. The boys have all laid in enough footwear to last 'em ten years; and there's nothing doing in the shoe store but dolcy far nienty. I just came by there. Your venerable victim was standing9 in the door, gazing through his specs at the bare toes passing by his emporium. The natives here have got the true artistic10 temperament11. Me and Clancy took eighteen tintypes this morning in two hours. There's been but one pair of shoes sold all day. Blanchard went in and bought a pair of fur-lined house-slippers because he thought he saw Miss Hemstetter go into the store. I saw him throw the slippers into the lagoon12 afterwards."
"There's a Mobile fruit steamer coming in to-morrow or next day," said Johnny. "We can't do anything until then."
"What are you going to do—try to create a demand?"
"Political economy isn't your strong point," said the consul, impudently13. "You can't create a demand. But you can create a necessity for a demand. That's what I am going to do."
Two weeks after the consul sent his cable, a fruit steamer brought him a huge, mysterious brown bale of some unknown commodity. Johnny's influence with the custom-house people was sufficiently14 strong for him to get the goods turned over to him without the usual inspection15. He had the bale taken to the consulate16 and snugly17 stowed in the back room.
That night he ripped open a corner of it and took out a handful of the cockleburrs. He examined them with the care with which a warrior18 examines his arms before he goes forth19 to battle for his lady-love and life. The burrs were the ripe August product, as hard as filberts, and bristling20 with spines21 as tough and sharp as needles. Johnny whistled softly a little tune22, and went out to find Billy Keogh.
Later in the night, when Coralio was steeped in slumber23, he and Billy went forth into the deserted24 streets with their coats bulging25 like balloons. All up and down the Calle Grande they went, sowing the sharp burrs carefully in the sand, along the narrow sidewalks, in every foot of grass between the silent houses. And then they took the side streets and by-ways, missing none. No place where the foot of man, woman or child might fall was slighted. Many trips they made to and from the prickly hoard26. And then, nearly at the dawn, they laid themselves down to rest calmly, as great generals do after planning a victory according to the revised tactics, and slept, knowing that they had sowed with the accuracy of Satan sowing tares27 and the perseverance28 of Paul planting.
With the rising sun came the purveyors of fruits and meats, and arranged their wares29 in and around the little market-house. At one end of the town near the seashore the market-house stood; and the sowing of the burrs had not been carried that far. The dealers31 waited long past the hour when their sales usually began. None came to buy. "Qué hay?" they began to exclaim, one to another.
At their accustomed time, from every 'dobe and palm hut and grass-thatched shack32 and dim patio33 glided34 women—black women, brown women, lemon-colored women, women dun and yellow and tawny35. They were the marketers starting to purchase the family supply of cassava, plantains, meat, fowls36, and tortillas. Décolleté they were and bare-armed and bare-footed, with a single skirt reaching below the knee. Stolid37 and ox-eyed, they stepped from their doorways38 into the narrow paths or upon the soft grass of the streets.
The first to emerge uttered ambiguous squeals40, and raised one foot quickly. Another step and they sat down, with shrill41 cries of alarm, to pick at the new and painful insects that had stung them upon the feet. "Qué picadores diablos!" they screeched42 to one another across the narrow ways. Some tried the grass instead of the paths, but there they were also stung and bitten by the strange little prickly balls. They plumped down in the grass, and added their lamentations to those of their sisters in the sandy paths. All through the town was heard the plaint of the feminine jabber43. The venders in the market still wondered why no customers came.
Then men, lords of the earth, came forth. They, too, began to hop44, to dance, to limp, and to curse. They stood stranded45 and foolish, or stooped to pluck at the scourge46 that attacked their feet and ankles. Some loudly proclaimed the pest to be poisonous spiders of an unknown species.
And then the children ran out for their morning romp4. And now to the uproar47 was added the howls of limping infants and cockleburred childhood. Every minute the advancing day brought forth fresh victims.
Doña Maria Castillas y Buenventura de las Casas stepped from her honoured doorway39, as was her daily custom, to procure48 fresh bread from the panaderia across the street. She was clad in a skirt of flowered yellow satin, a chemise of ruffled49 linen50, and wore a purple mantilla from the looms51 of Spain. Her lemon-tinted feet, alas52! were bare. Her progress was majestic53, for were not her ancestors hidalgos of Aragon? Three steps she made across the velvety54 grass, and set her aristocratic sole upon a bunch of Johnny's burrs. Doña Maria Castillas y Buenventura de las Casas emitted a yowl even as a wild-cat. Turning about, she fell upon hands and knees, and crawled—ay, like a beast of the field she crawled back to her honourable55 door-sill.
Don Señor Ildefonso Federico Valdazar, Juez de la Paz, weighing twenty stone, attempted to convey his bulk to the pulperia at the corner of the plaza56 in order to assuage57 his matutinal thirst. The first plunge58 of his unshod foot into the cool grass struck a concealed59 mine. Don Ildefonso fell like a crumpled60 cathedral, crying out that he had been fatally bitten by a deadly scorpion61. Everywhere were the shoeless citizens hopping62, stumbling, limping, and picking from their feet the venomous insects that had come in a single night to harass63 them.
The first to perceive the remedy was Estebán Delgado, the barber, a man of travel and education. Sitting upon a stone, he plucked burrs from his toes, and made oration64:
"Behold65, my friends, these bugs66 of the devil! I know them well. They soar through the skies in swarms67 like pigeons. These are the dead ones that fell during the night. In Yucatan I have seen them as large as oranges. Yes! There they hiss68 like serpents, and have wings like bats. It is the shoes—the shoes that one needs! Zapatos—zapatos para mi!"
Estebán hobbled to Mr. Hemstetter's store, and bought shoes. Coming out, he swaggered down the street with impunity69, reviling70 loudly the bugs of the devil. The suffering ones sat up or stood upon one foot and beheld71 the immune barber. Men, women and children took up the cry: "Zapatos! zapatos!"
The necessity for the demand had been created. The demand followed. That day Mr. Hemstetter sold three hundred pairs of shoes.
"It is really surprising," he said to Johnny, who came up in the evening to help him straighten out the stock, "how trade is picking up. Yesterday I made but three sales."
"I think I shall order a dozen more cases of goods, to keep the stock up," said Mr. Hemstetter, beaming through his spectacles.
"I wouldn't send in any orders yet," advised Johnny. "Wait till you see how the trade holds up."
Each night Johnny and Keogh sowed the crop that grew dollars by day. At the end of ten days two-thirds of the stock of shoes had been sold; and the stock of cockleburrs was exhausted73. Johnny cabled to Pink Dawson for another 500 pounds, paying twenty cents per pound as before. Mr. Hemstetter carefully made up an order for $1500 worth of shoes from Northern firms. Johnny hung about the store until this order was ready for the mail, and succeeded in destroying it before it reached the postoffice.
That night he took Rosine under the mango tree by Goodwin's porch, and confessed everything. She looked him in the eye, and said: "You are a very wicked man. Father and I will go back home. You say it was a joke? I think it is a very serious matter."
But at the end of half an hour's argument the conversation had been turned upon a different subject. The two were considering the respective merits of pale blue and pink wall paper with which the old colonial mansion74 of the Atwoods in Dalesburg was to be decorated after the wedding.
On the next morning Johnny confessed to Mr. Hemstetter. The shoe merchant put on his spectacles, and said through them: "You strike me as being a most extraordinary young scamp. If I had not managed this enterprise with good business judgment75 my entire stock of goods might have been a complete loss. Now, how do you propose to dispose of the rest of it?"
When the second invoice76 of cockleburrs arrived Johnny loaded them and the remainder of the shoes into a schooner77, and sailed down the coast to Alazan.
There, in the same dark and diabolical78 manner, he repeated his success; and came back with a bag of money and not so much as a shoestring79.
And then he besought80 his great Uncle of the waving goatee and starred vest to accept his resignation, for the lotus no longer lured81 him. He hankered for the spinach82 and cress of Dalesburg.
The services of Mr. William Terence Keogh as acting83 consul, pro3 tem., were suggested and accepted, and Johnny sailed with the Hemstetters back to his native shores.
Keogh slipped into the sinecure84 of the American consulship85 with the ease that never left him even in such high places. The tintype establishment was soon to become a thing of the past, although its deadly work along the peaceful and helpless Spanish Main was never effaced86. The restless partners were about to be off again, scouting87 ahead of the slow ranks of Fortune. But now they would take different ways. There were rumours88 of a promising89 uprising in Peru; and thither90 the martial91 Clancy would turn his adventurous92 steps. As for Keogh, he was figuring in his mind and on quires of Government letter-heads a scheme that dwarfed93 the art of misrepresenting the human countenance94 upon tin.
"What suits me," Keogh used to say, "in the way of a business proposition is something diversified95 that looks like a longer shot than it is—something in the way of a genteel graft96 that isn't worked enough for the correspondence schools to be teaching it by mail. I take the long end; but I like to have at least as good a chance to win as a man learning to play poker97 on an ocean steamer, or running for governor of Texas on the Republican ticket. And when I cash in my winnings, I don't want to find any widows' and orphans98' chips in my stack."
The grass-grown globe was the green table on which Keogh gambled. The games he played were of his own invention. He was no grubber after the diffident dollar. Nor did he care to follow it with horn and hounds. Rather he loved to coax99 it with egregious100 and brilliant flies from its habitat in the waters of strange streams. Yet Keogh was a business man; and his schemes, in spite of their singularity, were as solidly set as the plans of a building contractor101. In Arthur's time Sir William Keogh would have been a Knight102 of the Round Table. In these modern days he rides abroad, seeking the Graft instead of the Grail.
Three days after Johnny's departure, two small schooners103 appeared off Coralio. After some delay a boat put off from one of them, and brought a sunburned young man ashore30. This young man had a shrewd and calculating eye; and he gazed with amazement104 at the strange things that he saw. He found on the beach some one who directed him to the consul's office; and thither he made his way at a nervous gait.
Keogh was sprawled105 in the official chair, drawing caricatures of his Uncle's head on an official pad of paper. He looked up at his visitor.
"Where's Johnny Atwood?" inquired the sunburned young man, in a business tone.
"Gone," said Keogh, working carefully at Uncle Sam's necktie.
"That's just like him," remarked the nut-brown one, leaning against the table. "He always was a fellow to gallivant around instead of 'tending to business. Will he be in soon?"
"Don't think so," said Keogh, after a fair amount of deliberation.
"I s'pose he's out at some of his tomfoolery," conjectured106 the visitor, in a tone of virtuous107 conviction. "Johnny never would stick to anything long enough to succeed. I wonder how he manages to run his business here, and never be 'round to look after it."
"I'm looking after the business just now," admitted the pro tem. consul.
"Are you—then, say!—where's the factory?"
"What factory?" asked Keogh, with a mildly polite interest.
"Why, the factory where they use them cockleburrs. Lord knows what they use 'em for, anyway! I've got the basements of both them ships out there loaded with 'em. I'll give you a bargain in this lot. I've had every man, woman and child around Dalesburg that wasn't busy pickin' 'em for a month. I hired these ships to bring 'em over. Everybody thought I was crazy. Now, you can have this lot for fifteen cents a pound, delivered on land. And if you want more I guess old Alabam' can come up to the demand. Johnny told me when he left home that if he struck anything down here that there was any money in he'd let me in on it. Shall I drive the ships in and hitch108?"
A look of supreme109, almost incredulous, delight dawned in Keogh's ruddy countenance. He dropped his pencil. His eyes turned upon the sunburned young man with joy in them mingled110 with fear lest his ecstasy111 should prove a dream.
"For God's sake, tell me," said Keogh, earnestly, "are you Dink Pawson?"
"My name is Pinkney Dawson," said the cornerer of the cockleburr market.
Billy Keogh slid rapturously and gently from his chair to his favourite strip of matting on the floor.
There were not many sounds in Coralio on that sultry afternoon. Among those that were may be mentioned a noise of enraptured112 and unrighteous laughter from a prostrate113 Irish-American, while a sunburned young man, with a shrewd eye, looked on him with wonder and amazement. Also the "tramp, tramp, tramp" of many well-shod feet in the streets outside. Also the lonesome wash of the waves that beat along the historic shores of the Spanish Main.
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