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"Pardo Lureña is a villain, but we will unmask him. Of course, there was a little truth in his story, but so twisted and distorted that it could not be recognized. Your father will understand, however, and even you will come to see that I am not greatly to blame. A little thoughtlessness, Juan, and a desire to help a friend no more; but that can wait.
Indeed, he actually completed his term of office an exceedingly rare occurrence for a President just at that period. Pardo was succeeded by General Prado, who had returned from Chile for the purpose of the election, and proved the popular candidate.
Don Manuel added, using that confidential air with which fools and parvenus try to impress people they think beneath them: "See here! You're not a boy, any more. And I hang it all! you can't call me old, yet. I don't see my friend showing up, anywhere, so we can have a little talk. I've got I've got something bothering me. You understand?" Enrique nodded. "You know her? Alicia Pardo?" "No, sir."
Deveny paused, the sentence unfinished, for the girl turned abruptly from him and walked to Harlan. "That was Laskar the man you killed just now?" "Laskar an' Dolver," relied Harlan. "There was three of them your father said. One got away in the night, leavin' Dolver an' Laskar to finish the job. I run plumb into them, crossin' here from Pardo.
Our father Fray Felipe Pardo alone, distrustful of his suitability for that office either on account of his sixty-seven years of age, or in view of the difficulty of the task was greatly perplexed about accepting it. Having spent thirty years in that country, he has much knowledge of it and of its moral and social conditions, and much experience in ecclesiastical government.
"That's a trick Red's got seemin' unimportant. Red spends a heap of his time not sayin' anything, an' hangin' around lookin' like he's been misplaced. But when there's any trouble, you'll find Red like the banty rooster that's figurin' to rule the roost. "I knowed him over in Pardo, ma'am he rode for the T Down for two or three seasons."
This man who had boldly entered the outlaw camp, after first defying Deveny in Lamo, had made a stirring appeal to the good in Rogers; and he foresaw that trouble, in which Harlan had a chance to emerge victorious, was certain. And he had decided to align himself with the Pardo gunman.
You might almost have thought the warmth of her flesh had infused a deathless glow in all those wanderers. Alicia Pardo came in again, bringing with her a gust of violet perfume. "Have I kept you waiting long?" asked she. "I hope not. Come on, now, let's go to the dining-room. If we want to get to the theater in time, we mustn't lose a minute."
His emotions choked him the novelty of this new world that till now he had not even known by hearsay; a topsy-turvy, unmoral world where, as in art, beauty formed the only criterion of worth; a world where women sold themselves for an opera-box. All this time Alicia Pardo had been studying Enrique. The downright frankness of her look was alarming in its amusement.
It was that emotion which counsels caution, which warns of a worthy antagonist, which respects force that is elemental and destroying. Haydon smiled as he halted within a few paces of Harlan and turned the palms of his hands outward. "You're 'Drag' Harlan, of Pardo," he said. Harlan nodded. "My name's Haydon. I own the Star about fifteen miles west on Sunset Trail.
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