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"Si, senor," said Inez quickly. "It is well known hereabouts. Do not take my word," she smiled, "I am a woman a Spaniard, on my mother's side. Ask your own countrymen Samuel Brannan, Nathan Spear, William Leidesdorff." Hull pulled at his chin reflectively.
"It's the spirit of the thing that counts, my friends." A crowd was assembling. Mrs. Windham and her daughter drew instinctively aside. Benito stood between them and the growing throng as if to shield them from a battery of curious glances. "Will the ladies accept?" asked Leidesdorff with another exaggerated salute.
Hyde had made many enemies by his set, opinionated ways. There was talk of putting Rev. Thaddeus Leavenworth in his place. But Brannan was by no means certain this would solve the problem. He missed Leidesdorff sadly. The latter's sudden death had left a serious hiatus. He was used to talking problems over with the genial, hospitable Dane, whose counsel was always placid, well considered.
"Let me do what I can for you." "I will. First, what hotel shall I go to?" "There is the Leidesdorff House, on California Street. I'll lead you there." "Thank you. Will you come, Joe?" "Yes, I will go to find out where it is." The three bent their steps to the hotel referred to.
Once he stopped in a candy shop on Leidesdorff Street and bought two ice-cream cornucopias. Fred used to shake a puzzled head as he deposited these gastronomic trifles upon Helen's desk as he said: "I don't get this man Hilmer... One minute he insults you and the next minute he's as considerate as a canteen worker... What's he throwing business my way for?"
Suddenly he cast his business interests to the winds. Became a labor agitator. Francisco Stanley, who had sought him, questing for an interview since morning, cornered him at last in Bob Woodward's What Cheer House at Sacramento and Leidesdorff streets. It was one of those odd institutions found only in this vividly bizarre metropolis of the West.
And near him, to accentuate the contrast, an elderly moustached, imperialed Frenchman on a mare as under-sized and spirited as himself. Brannan and Leidesdorff watched them galloping down the camino ten minutes later under the guidance of a smart young corporal. "I trust it will soon be over," said the former. "I saw Benito Windham riding beside Sanchez in the battle today."
"It was the house and store of a fellow named Leidesdorff," he continued, "who did a lot of trading with the Yankee skippers in Mexican days, and it was turned into a hotel in the gold rush. It was always the swell place for blowouts.
At Sacramento and Leidesdorff streets he left solid ground to tread a four-foot board above the water, to the theoretical line of Sansome street; thence south upon a similar foothold to the solid ground of Bush street, where an immense sand-*hill with a hollow in its middle, like a crater, struck across the path.
Captain Montgomery, stiff and dignified, lifted his hand and amid an impressive silence read the proclamation of Commodore Sloat, in which all citizens of captured ports were assured of fair and friendly treatment and invited to become subjects of the United States. He suggested the immediate formation of a town militia. Leidesdorff came bustling forward.
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