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Even now it is hers, since her father has lost his calabash, as you have seen. Now let me tell you what happened many years ago. Don Hilario was at first a peon a poor boy the Colonel befriended. When he grew up he was made capatas, then mayordomo.
But the Spanish duenna still survives in the family the more awful because invisible. It's a mysterious fact that as soon as a fellow becomes particularly attached to any one except Maruja he receives some intimation from Pereo." "What! the butler? That Indian-looking fellow? A servant?" "Pardon me the mayordomo. The old confidential servitor who stands in loco parentis. No one knows what he says.
In an interview, which tended on both sides to become heated and personal, Jim Swope had denounced Hardy for misrepresenting his orders to his mayordomo, and had stated in no uncertain terms his firm intention of breaking even in the Spring, if there was a blade of grass left on the upper range.
When she had sulkily agreed to prepare me tortillas, I returned to ask the way to the river. The mayordomo cried out in horror at the notion of bathing at night, pointing out that there was not even a moon, and prophesying a fatal outcome of such foolhardiness and gringo eccentricity. His appearance suggested that he had also some strong superstition against bathing by day.
I replied that I was not to blame, having struck the man in self-defence; also, that I had been sent to the estancia by a friend of the Mayordomo, and was determined to see him and give him my version of the affair. The capatas shrugged his shoulders and lit a cigarette. At length Don Policarpo returned, and when I told him my story he laughed slightly, but said nothing.
"Oh, Padre!" cried the boy; and he took the Father's hand and put it, Indian fashion, to his forehead in token of gratitude. Agust'n the mayordomo was, next to the Father, the most important man about the Mission.
No excuse for lying abed was accepted; up, and on the floor we knelt, then she passed on to where the mayordomo, or foreman, and his men were gathering in the courtyard. Here, too, was the cook with the Indian maids, busy making tortillas for the morning meal. 'Your Albas, my children, my mother would say in her clear, firm voice.
The boy hung his head, and the Father, taking his silence as an admission of guilt, added, "That was wrong of you, Te filo, and I must give you some penance to remind you not to do such mischief again. Do you know, boy, what that book is worth? Not less than twenty pesos, Te filo, or even more. That is one year's wages of Agust'n the mayordomo, so you can see such things must be left alone.
He made many complaints, and numerous demands; Columbus made large concessions, but some of the pretensions were too arrogant to be admitted. Nothing definite was arranged. The admiral sent his Mayordomo, Diego de Salamanca, to treat in his behalf.
Take no notice of what the Mayordomo says, he also is afraid of you. If the authorities take you, it will only be to see what you can give them: they will not keep you long, for you are a foreigner, and cannot be made to serve in the army. But when you are again at liberty it will be necessary for you to kill someone." Very much amazed, I asked him why.
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