We had sat scarcely an hour, all told. Yet His Excellency led us into the sala, and awaited our adieus with a manner which, though urbane6, did not encourage extended farewells. As his bearing toward myself was markedly less gracious than toward Pike and Malgares, I for one was not so ill-pleased as I might have been over this hurried leave-taking.
In the outer gateway7 Malgares for the second time excused himself to gallop8 off to his señora, while we returned afoot across the plaza9 with the ubiquitous Walker. Upon reaching his quarters, the latter invited us to recline on the mattresses10 which had been provided for us by old Cæsar. He himself preferred one of the long net hammocks such as are used among the Spaniards of the tropical coast lands. We chatted a few minutes over our cigarros, and then Walker dropped asleep.
Pike at once informed me that Salcedo had taken possession of all the papers in his little despatch11 trunk other than the letters from Mrs. Pike. These last, prompted by the same chivalry12 which had induced Allencaster to restore me my treasures, the Governor-General had permitted my friend to pocket without examination, upon the statement that they were from a lady. But that all the really valuable papers, such as our charts, astronomical13 observations, and journals, would be retained the Lieutenant14 now had little doubt.
"However," he concluded, "worse come to worse, we have your copy of the courses and distances, covering everything except that side excursion to the Platte and down the Upper Arkansas."
"And there is your keen eye and retentive15 memory," I added. "We have already seen enough of New Spain for the information to more than offset16 the loss of the papers—if they really are lost. Had we headed straight for the Red from the Rio del Norte, we should have saved the papers, but should have gone home as ignorant of New Spain as we came."
"And you without seeing your señorita!"
"Ah, that!" I murmured. "It may be I shall pay dearly for the venture. You saw how Salcedo varied17 his manner toward me. But it is worth the risk. I could not have done otherwise!"
"I believe you, John. I myself caught a glimpse of your lady. I no longer wonder! But if Salcedo really is ill-disposed toward you, the sooner you get in touch with the señorita and her people the better. It may be they have influence."
"I shall make every effort to do so before the day is over," I said. "The difficulty is this Walker."
"He is an informer," said Pike. "Of that I have no doubts. I propose to give him enough and to spare of material for his tale-bearing."
"Good!" I cried. "A bold front is the best. Salcedo is bound to release you; while as for myself, if they garrotte me, they shall not have the satisfaction of saying that I cringed. No! we will tell this informer what we think of matters Spanish."
Before Pike could reply, we were startled by a sudden out-clanging of bells in the towers of the Parroquia. Walker started up and stared at us. Pike yawned, stretched, and remarked to me, in a casual tone: "You're right. This government is one fit only for masters and slaves."
"You mean, a master and slaves," I returned.
"No—one master here and one in Old Spain."
"Why not put it, a master there and an overseer here? The comparison is in point between this arrangement and that of one of our Virginia or Carolina plantation-owners who lives in town and leaves his estate under the care of an overseer. You could hardly call the overseer a master."
"The difference is that he drives people of a race born for slavery, while here—"
"Here," broke in Walker, his face quivering—"here some who were not born to slavery fall into it unawares!"
"What!" I said. "Do you, who voluntarily joined the cavalry18 of New Spain, complain of the Government to which you owe allegiance?"
"Voluntarily?—No, gentlemen. New Orleans is not Chihuahua, nor was it so even under Spanish rule. I did not realize what I was venturing when I entered this service. I have attempted to withdraw, but they refuse to accept my resignation."
"Ah, well," said Pike, "since it seems we are to be your guests, lieutenant, I am pleased that you understand and share our opinion of this despotic Government. Discontent is a hopeful sign when tyranny is rampant19. Only let a few of the bolder spirits among you pluck up courage to seek open redress20 for your wrongs, and Mexico will soon fling off the yoke21 of Spain, as our glorious States broke their bondage22 to Britain."
I saw our host's eyes begin to widen. To keep the ball rolling, I chimed in along the same line. Walker did not again speak, but sat staring in open amazement23 at our audacity,—of course with both ears wide. Having started off at such a pace, we were almost out of material when Cæsar thrust in his woolly head and announced Señor Vallois. Walker promptly24 called out a floridly complimentary25 invitation for the visitor to enter.
Don Pedro came in, every inch the gentleman and grand haciendado. As he straightened from his bows to our host, I had time only to observe that since our parting his face had lost several shades of tan and gained many deep lines of anxiety. A moment later he gripped my hand and shook it with cordial heartiness26. But at the end, instead of releasing his clasp, he slipped his left arm around my waist and pressed himself to me until our cheeks touched. It was the first time I had either seen or experienced this curious custom of the country, and it so surprised me that I stood unbending to his embrace.
"How is this, Don Juan?" he demanded. "Are your friends so soon forgot?"
"No, no, Don Pedro! It is only that I did not look for so warm a greeting from you. You must be aware that I am here under a cloud."
"Señor, I should have known that so noble a gentleman as yourself could have done none else!"
We bowed together, and I then introduced him to Pike, adding for Walker's benefit that the don was an acquaintance I had met in Washington. So far we had held to the French. Now the don delighted Pike by addressing him in English: "Sir, I am more than pleased to meet you. I have heard rumors28 of your extraordinary trip to the headwaters of the Mississippi."
"You are kind, sir. But it was nothing worth mentioning. The soldiers of the Republic are accustomed to doing their duty."
"But this present expedition!" added the don. "I understand that you crossed the Sangre de Cristo in February."
"It was cross over—or perish."
"Madre de Dios! That is the point. It seems that you and Don Juan did cross over when most men would have perished. Do you then marvel29 that my wife is desirous of meeting two such heroes?" He turned to Walker with a bow. "With your kind permission, Lieutenant Walker, I will borrow your guests for the evening."
"Ah—yes—indeed—" hesitated Walker.
"My sincerest regrets, sir," broke in Pike. "You will pardon my declining the kind invitation. This long ride from Santa Fe and the heat have fatigued30 me more than I realized."
"Santisima Virgen!" exclaimed Don Pedro, unfeignedly disappointed. "Yet as you need rest, I must console myself with the hope that you will honor us with your presence in the near future. As to this evening, however, I must urge Don Juan to accompany me."
This, as was plainly evident from his manner, put Walker into a quandary33. To have ordered me to remain would have exposed the hand of the Governor-General. Yet how could he watch both Pike and myself if we separated? It was an impossibility. He hesitated for a long moment, and then bowed to Don Pedro: "With your kind permission, señor, I will pay respects to Señora Vallois. Lieutenant Don Montgomery should be allowed to repose34 in quiet."
"Your pleasure is mine, señor," replied Don Pedro, with a punctilious35 note in his politeness that told me he was not altogether pleased at Walker's self-invitation.
It occurred to me that the Governor-General might have as much or more reason to spy upon him as upon myself. If the don was in the thick of a revolutionary conspiracy36, as might well be, he was vastly more dangerous to the Government than myself. The thought filled me with sudden dread37 for the safety of my lady's kinsman38. But on the heels of this fright came the reassurance39 that, after all, Walker's interest might well be accounted for by the presence of a certain señorita in the home of Don Pedro. We had taken for granted that he was an informer. Yet his present course was quite as reasonably explained by his desire to see Señorita Vallois.
Leaving Pike to his own devices, we left the house and walked leisurely40 around the edge of the plaza. This brought us past a number of the city's largest merchandise establishments, to which groups of reboza-veiled señoras and señoritas were beginning to saunter for the evening's shopping. Now and again a bright, coquettish eye peeped out at us from among the folds of a close-drawn41 headwrap. But I was not curious to look twice at any of these over-rotund brunettes. To me there was only one lady in all the world, and now I was going to see her, to hear her exquisite42 voice, after almost a year of separation.
A few minutes, which to my impatience43 seemed hours, brought us to the door of Don Pedro. I should say, to the wicket in the great iron gate of the archway. At sight of us the porter within sprang to free the bolt. But before we could enter there sounded a clatter44 of hoofs45 in the nearest side street, and Malgares came galloping46 into view. Don Pedro paused for him to ride up, and a moment later they were exchanging that curious salute47 of handshake and cheek-to-cheek embrace. Malgares then explained that his wife was at the house of Don Pedro, and that he had just secured relief from his duties to follow her.
As we entered, a groom48 ran forward to take charge of Malgares's horse, while the don conducted us up the stairway in the nearest corner of his beautiful garden-court. A short turn along the gallery brought us to the entrance of a large sala. By now I was so wrought49 up that I found it necessary to pause beside the open doorway50 to regain51 my composure, the result of which was that all the others passed in before me.
I followed close behind Walker. The first glance showed me that my lady was not in the room. Malgares, who had entered with Don Pedro, stood before his wife and Señora Vallois, clasping the hand of the latter. The ladies, I observed, wore the full petticoats and short jackets of their countrywomen, though their costumes were of the richest and most elegant materials. As I stood gazing at them, I was astonished to see Malgares and the rotund lady exchange that same odd embrace of greeting with which our host had favored myself and Don Faciendo.
Knowing the fiery52 jealousy53 of the Spaniards, I looked for Don Pedro to strike the audacious soldier, and Doña Dolores to burst into angry tears. Instead, they stood by, beaming at the affectionate pair with utmost complacency. Malgares turned to his smiling wife, and Señora Vallois gave Walker her hand to salute. When he also stepped aside, Don Pedro introduced me, first to his señora, and then to Doña Dolores Malgares. Each permitted me to salute her hand.
Straightening from my second bow, I was overjoyed to see Alisanda crossing the room toward us. But Malgares was before me. He met her with a bow. They grasped hands in that cordial manner, exchanged a few words of greeting, and—embraced!
This was too much! It might be the custom of the country—doubtless it was the custom of the country—But for my lady to welcome another man than myself, not of her family, was more than I could endure. I stepped forward, frowning. Alisanda slipped from Malgares's embrace and came to meet me, her lips parting in a demurely54 mischievous55 smile.
But she drooped58 her long lashes59. I clasped her little hand and bent60 to kiss it. Again I was frustrated61. She drew the hand back. But her firm clasp did not relax. In the excess of my emotion, I did not realize her purpose until she had drawn me close, and her left arm began to encircle me. Then the truth flashed upon me. She had welcomed Malgares according to the custom of the country that I too might enjoy that most delightful62 of greetings! The discovery was too much for my discretion63 to withstand. Swept away by my love and adoration64, I caught the dear girl to me and kissed her fairly upon her sweet lips.
I heard a sharp exclamation65 from Don Pedro, and Alisanda thrust herself free from me, her pale cheeks suddenly gone as scarlet66 as her lips. Her dark eyes flashed at me a glance of scorn and anger which sobered me on the instant. I half turned to the others, who were all alike staring at me in angry amazement.
"Señora Vallois!" I exclaimed, "can you not pardon this blunder—my deplorable ignorance of your customs? This is my first experience with your gracious salute of friends. The offence was absolutely unintentional. Believe me, my esteem67 and respect for Señorita Vallois is such that nothing could cause me greater grief than the consciousness I had offended her."
"Do not apologize further, Señor Robinson," replied the señora, melting more at my tone and look of concern than at the words. "Your explanation is quite sufficient. I am certain my niece will pardon you the error."
"If only she may!" I cried, turning to Alisanda. "Señorita, will you not forgive me? Do not hold it against me that in attempting to conform to your etiquette68 I passed the bounds! You must know that no disrespect was intended—Far from it! I meant only to express my great esteem."
"My aunt has spoken for me, Señor Robinson," she answered coldly. "The incident is already forgotten."
"But not Señor Robinson," remarked Señora Malgares. "I am consumed with curiosity to hear more about his marvellous adventures. My beloved Faciendo has told me that the señor doctor and his fellow Americanos crossed and recrossed the northern mountains in the very midst of the Winter."
"They were a barrier in our way, señora. We could do none else than cross them," I replied, with a side-glance at Alisanda.
This time she met me with that calm, level gaze which I had always found so inscrutable. Now, as then, I looked deep into those lovely eyes and saw only mystery. But Doña Dolores would not be denied.
"Santa Maria!" she exclaimed. "When am I to hear about your heroic journey, Señor Robinson?"
"Pardon me, señora," I replied. "Don Faciendo is better qualified70 to serve as historian. He insisted upon learning the facts alike from Lieutenant Pike and myself."
"If Don Faciendo will graciously ease our impatience," urged Señora Vallois.
"Nothing could give me greater pleasure, Doña Marguerite," assented Malgares.
"Be seated, friends. I am sure we are all eager to hear," said the señora. Even Walker bowed quick assent32 to this. "I am most interested of all present, because Señor Robinson showered endless courtesies and favors upon my beloved Pedro and Alisanda while they were journeying through his country."
"Believe me, señora," I protested, "what little I was able to do fell far short of the favors I received."
"One word or glance from Señorita Vallois were worth the service of a lifetime!" put in Walker.
My feeling went too deep for verbal compliments. I stood dumb, and watched Walker receive a smile over my lady's fan that repaid him a hundredfold. The others were now moving toward the end of the sala, where were grouped three or four low divans72. Alisanda glided73 after Doña Dolores, and Walker promptly stepped out beside her. I followed last of all, too fearful of another false move to force myself forward.
Yet somehow, when we came to seat ourselves, I was delighted to find myself beside Alisanda at the end of the divan71, while Walker was hedged off from her on the other side by Doña Dolores. As the plump little señora chose to tuck up her limbs Turk-fashion, the interval74 was not narrow. Walker had to perch75 on the extreme far corner of the divan.
Malgares and our host sat across from us, while Doña Marguerite reclined upon the third divan. Alisanda was the only one of the ladies who sat upright. She did not look at me. But for the moment it was enough that her shoulder touched my arm.
When all were settled, Malgares plunged76 into his account, which he rendered in a crisp, clear French that made every statement stand out like a cameo. First of all he gave a brief and modest recital77 of his own remarkable78 expedition, dwelling79 strongest upon his arrangements with the savages80 to stop us; the vast extent of the all but treeless prairies, and the grandeur81 of the mighty82 snow mountains of the North.
He then described how our little party had come to the Pawnees and braved their might; how, late as was the season, we had pushed on westward83, and how, in the midst of the midwinter's cold, we had clambered about among those huge sierras of rock and snow. As told by him, the account drew bravo after bravo from the little audience. When he described our ascent84 of what we had supposed to be the Grand Peak, Alisanda flashed at me a glance that put me into a glow of bliss85. Malgares was a flattering historian. But he was not satisfied with his own efforts. When it came to the descent of the terrific gorge86 of the Arkansas by Brown and myself, he broke off in the midst and insisted upon my picturing that awful canyon87 in my own words.
"Nada," I hesitated. "I cannot tell it."
"You must, Juan!" murmured my lady.
To say "no" to her was impossible. I went on with the tale as best I could in my rude French, and related how Brown and I had made our way up the icy ascent of the side ravine. As I described the cutting of footholds and our slow clambering higher and higher out of the chasm88, Alisanda's eyes widened and her hands met in a convulsive clasp. Before I had finished she was breathing hard with excitement. The other ladies were hardly less thrilled. Women are so easily startled by the recital of dangers which a man risks as a matter of course.
But when I came to our terrible journey in the valley of starvation it was not alone the ladies who were moved. Aside from Walker I felt that all my listeners were friends, and I could not forego the opportunity to describe fully89 the heroic fortitude90 with which my indomitable friend and his men had endured their sufferings and struggled on against all odds91. If my eyes were wet when I told of the injuries of the poor lads Sparks and Dougherty, there was at least one present who did not consider my emotion unmanly. She bowed her head in her hands and wept.
I went on to tell how the unfortunate men had sent the bones from their frozen feet, in pitiful appeal to their commander, and how they were being brought after us, maimed and unable to walk. It was not my desire to harrow my listeners needlessly, but I knew that the Malgares and the Vallois were among the richest families in New Spain, and felt certain that to tell them the piteous truth would insure the injured men the best of care so long as they should be detained by the Governor-General.
Having covered this point, I went back and described how we had fought our way on up the desolate93 plateau and across the Sangre de Cristo, and had at last found relief from toil94 and frost and famine in the broad valley of the Rio del Norte.
"So there was an end of our hardships," I concluded. "We had crossed the barrier."
"You had crossed the barrier!" murmured my lady, and through the tears which still glistened95 in her eyes she shot me a glance that repaid in full for all my months of journeying to find her.
"But that is not the end, Señor Robinson!" cried Doña Dolores, with the sweet petulance96 of a young bride. "Faciendo, you must let them know how Don Juan left his companions and came alone all the way to Santa Fe, fearless of the hideous97 Apaches."
"The Apaches do not range so far north, niña," corrected her husband. "Yet is it dangerous for a man to go alone among any of the wild tribes, or even among the tame Indians, if they have reason to believe his murder will not be discovered. That, however, was a small matter compared to the courage required to brave condemnation98 as a spy."
"Spy?" exclaimed Señor Vallois.
I saw Alisanda shrink at the word, and Walker bend forward to catch the answer.
"You must remember that Don Juan and his companions had been absent from the nearest of their frontier settlements for seven or eight months," explained Malgares. "How was he to foresee whether or not war had been declared?"
"War or not," interrupted Walker, "Señor Robinson not only invaded our territories in company with a military force, but, as I understand the event, he ventured into Santa Fe in disguise and without acknowledging his relation to Lieutenant Pike."
"How about it, Don Faciendo?" I asked. "Is an incursion into the territories of a neighboring Government necessarily an act of war?"
"Por Dios!" he laughed. "You have us there! I trust that His Excellency will consider his own proceedings99, and be moved to look with a lenient100 eye upon the mistake of our Americano friends."
"So exalted101 a personage must be a man of discretion," I said, looking fixedly102 at Walker. "His Excellency will think twice before exacting103 vengeance104 for so small an offence. The garrotting or imprisonment105 of one or all the members of the expedition would be a bad bargain if it resulted in the loss to His Catholic Majesty106 of the Floridas. Mr. Walker can tell you that the riflemen who muster107 for our backwoods militia108 could, unaided, sweep the Floridas from Louisiana to the Atlantic. What is more, they will do it at the first excuse. They are already at full cock over the manner in which the British agents are allowed by your people to come up from the Gulf109 and foment110 trouble against us among the Creeks111, Cherokees, and Choctaws. Let General Salcedo go to extremes with our peaceful expedition, and there will be a setting of triggers from Georgia to Louisiana."
"Madre de Dios! Be prudent112, I pray you, Juan!" warned Don Pedro. "Such words are best left unsaid."
"Are they?" I demanded. "If to-morrow every free-minded man in New Spain spoke69 out his real thoughts, to-morrow this land would be free from Old Spain."
"We forget that Don Juan is a citizen of the Anglo-American Republic," said Alisanda, calmly. "In his land men are not accustomed to wear muzzles115."
There followed a tense silence. The sun had set, and I could barely distinguish the features of the others in the fast gathering117 twilight118. There was a shadow upon them, not alone of the night.
Before any one spoke, the silence was broken by the peal92 of a huge church bell. Instantly all others than myself bent forward, crossing themselves and murmuring hasty prayers—"Ave Maria purisima!" "Ave Maria santisima!"—while slowly the great bell pealed119 forth120 its deep and sonorous121 note.
In the midst a little hand slipped out and rested for a moment upon my hard knuckles122. I turned my palm about to clasp the visitor, but it flitted like a butterfly. An instant later la oracion was brought to a close by a merry chime of smaller bells. The señoras began to chat in lively tones, and servants hastened in with waxen tapers123 to relieve the deepening gloom.
Greatly to my annoyance124, Walker rose to leave. I might have surmised125 that he was prompted to the action by jealousy, but my ignorance of local etiquette made me apprehensive126 of another blunder. This forced me to follow his lead and join in his polite refusals of the pressing invitations of our host and hostess to remain for the evening. In a land where, upon an introduction to a man in the plaza, he presents you with his house, and later is not at home to you when you call at that same house, it is as well to take the most urgent of invitations with a grain of salt.
As we bowed to the ladies, Doña Dolores demurely slipped aside and drew the attention of the others by a piquant127 remark about one of the fine paintings upon the wall. Alisanda took the opportunity to flash me a glance which set my heart to leaping with the certainty that I had lost nothing by my crossing of the barrier. Just what I had gained was yet to be seen. I knew I had gone far toward winning my lady's heart—I had crossed the barrier of nationality and birth. But I did not forget that I had yet to cross the gulf of religion.
With that one swift glance, she drew back, and Don Pedro escorted us to the door. We exchanged bows with him, and moved down the gallery to the head of the stairway. Here we turned and again exchanged bows. We descended128 to the first landing, and paused to return the bow which he made to us over the gallery rail. Another exchange of bows from the edge of the beautiful flower-and-shrub-embowered court, and we at last escaped out through the tunnel-like passage to the great gate.
Passing through the wicket into the street, which was lit up by the red glare of a resin129 torch, we found ourselves face to face with Father Rocus and Lieutenant Don Jesus Maria de Gonzales y Medina. The aide-de-camp bowed stiffly and stared from Walker to myself with a glance of fiery jealousy. I gave him a curt130 nod, and hastened to grasp the proffered131 hand of the beaming padre.
"God be with you, my son!" he exclaimed.
"My thanks for the kind wish, padre!" I replied "I see you are coming to call upon my friend Señor Vallois."
"Your friend!" muttered Medina, for I had spoken in French.
"My friend," I repeated. "I had the pleasure of meeting Don Pedro in my own country. But now, señor, with regard to our misunderstanding this morning, I wish to express my regrets and to explain that the error was committed through inadvertence."
"Ah—if you apologize," he said, with a complacent132 half-sneer.
"You mistake me, señor. I do not apologize. I merely explain."
He turned, without answering, and swaggered in through the archway.
"You Americanos!" protested Father Rocus, reaching up to lay a hand upon my shoulder. "Can you never be prudent? Medina is a swordsman. Your friend here will tell you that out of five duels133, the aide has to his credit three deaths on the black record of Satanas."
"If he is a swordsman, I am a pistol shot," I rejoined.
"Then all turns upon the chance of who challenges and who has choice of weapons. God grant the choice fall to you! He is in strong need of a lesson."
"Meantime, my son, it will be well for you to consider the peril135 of your soul and come often to the Parroquia to hear me preach," admonished136 the padre. He spoke in a severe tone, but I fancied I caught a twinkle in his eye as he turned to enter the gate.
Walker took me familiarly by the arm, and as we sauntered back to his quarters, first inquired particularly as to my skill with the pistol, and then went into the details of Medina's duels. Before he had finished I divined that he and others of the officers at Chihuahua would be more than pleased to see some one trim the comb of the braggadocio137 aide-de-camp. If an outsider could be inveigled138 into taking the risk, so much the better.
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