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I tell you, Don Ramon, that in the struggle which is just now beginning in this island, it is the bold, strong men who are going to `come out on top', as the Yankees say; and in the course of the next month or two the Spanish Government will have its hands so full that it will have no time to deal with individuals."
"First of all, I must find a safer hiding-place for our wealth than my pockets; and we must be ever on our guard. The voyage will not be long, and we shall be three against two." "Three! You will take Ramon, then?" "Certainly if he will go with us." "Of course he will. Ramon would follow you to the world's end. And the other sailor Yawl may have been drowned in the flood." "I don't think so.
Luis was "muy s'prised" that Annie-Many-Ponies had ever believed that Ramon would marry her, beautiful though she was, charming though she was, altogether irresistible though she was Luis became slightly incoherent here and lapsed into swift rolling Spanish words which she did not understand.
He isn't one of the ordinary cranks, or we would have dealt with him ourselves. He says that if you will read this, you will be glad to assent to an interview with him." He presented a card, which Blaine read with every manifestation of surprised interest. "Tell him I will see him in five minutes," he said. When the operative had withdrawn, the detective turned to Ramon.
The professor, he felt, was harmless, a silly old man who roamed through the hills, but the impressive looking judge was a different matter. Yet the next morning when the professor arrived with the girls, Ramon was digging away at the farthest claim, and did not even look up. "Guilty conscience!" whispered Bet to the professor. "He complicates matters considerably," frowned the old man.
He had fixed his date at a venture. "Yes," said Hillyard, rising from his chair. "I agree with you, Señor Ramon. Tabor is a liar. What troubled me was that I had no clue as to why he should lie. You have given me it, and with all my heart I thank you." He shook the stevedore's hand and stood for a moment talking and joking with him upon other subjects.
The fall of Huerta was potent proof that no ruler could survive in Mexico if the Government at Washington was set in opposition to him. After all, the life of Yeager was only a small matter. Why not use him as a pawn in the game to win the approval of the big Republic to the north? With his most engaging smile Ramon offered his hand to Captain Girard. "You are right.
"No, but they are taking no chances on my getting into the game. They don't suspect yet, but they will soon because the time has come for us to get busy." The next morning, when Ramon Hamilton presented himself at Henry Blaine's office in answer to the latter's summons, he found the great detective in a mood more nearly bordering upon excitability than he could remember having witnessed before.
He wrote down, for example: "Senor Ramon, was in the Carlist war; Uncle Juan, suffers with rheumatism." When, by means of his notes, he remembered these details, it produced an extraordinary effect on people. Everybody considered himself the favourite.
"Ramón, go see what it's like in the boat berth. The rest of you, follow him, and grab all the food and warm clothing you can. We're going to have to abandon." He stood by the doorway aft, shoving people through and keeping them from jamming up, saying: "Take it easy, now; don't crowd. We'll all get out." There wasn't any panic.
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