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He could see that reflected in their manner toward him: no trace of Vincente's aloofness remained, they had come, forgetting his comparative youth, his alien blood, to regard him with almost an anxiety of respect. When it was possible, men of the widest possible activities talked to him of their plans.
'I am quite prepared, he added, 'to give this caballero the benefit of the doubt, and assume that he has been in this matter the tool of unscrupulous persons. Seeing that he is a friend of General Vincente's, and has an introduction to his Excellency the Duke of Vittoria, he is without the pale of my jurisdiction.
A manor, formerly granted by Charles V. to Don Vincente Robles, of Andalusia, of pious and ascetic memory, it had commended itself to Judge Peyton, of Kentucky, a modern heretic pioneer of bookish tastes and secluded habits, who had bought it of Don Vincente's descendants.
Must all my life go on in this funeral march?" The elder Escobars regarded her in a voiceless amazement; but Andrés said severely: "You are too young to understand the tragedy of Cuba or Vincente's heroic spirit. I am ashamed of you before Charles Abbott." Narcisa rose and walked swiftly out upon the balcony.
Carmita Escobar had faded perceptibly since Vincente's death; still riven by sorrow she ceaselessly regretted the unhappy, the blasphemous, necessity which made the wearing of mourning for him inadmissible. Domingo Escobar, as well, showed the effects of continuous strain; his vein of humor was exhausted, he no longer provoked Charles' inadequate Spanish; he avoided any direct reference to Cuba.
It was only since he had left Sta. Marta that he had utterly lost touch with the feeling of European life on the background of his exotic surroundings. In the capital he had been the guest of the Legation, and had been kept busy negotiating with the members of Don Vincente's Government cultured men, men to whom the conditions of civilized business were not unknown.
The squid were of fair size, ranging from one to four feet in length, of which the body was about one-third. Presently Vincente's hand shot back a little and, with a quick throw, he cast the 'grains, as the small-barbed harpoon was called, into the midst of them. Colin's eyes were not quick enough to see the squid, but the boatman smiled. "Got him zat time!" he said. "Pull him in."
Vincente's corpse, revered a few minutes before, now became a hideous menace; it seemed to have grown to monumental proportions, a thing impossible to put out of sight. Undoubtedly soldiers were watching, guarding the house: a number of men in nondescript clothes were lounging persistently under the rows of Indian laurels below.
'The General told me, he went on in his cold voice, without a gleam of geniality or even of life in his eyes, 'that if I followed the servant to the drawing-room I should find here an English aide-de- camp who is fully in his confidence, and upon whose good-nature and assistance I could rely. 'I am for the time General Vincente's aide-de-camp, and I am an Englishman, answered Conyngham.
He raised his hand to the horse's bridle. 'You are most certainly going in the wrong direction, he said; 'I will lead you right. It was said and done so quietly that Conyngham had found no word to say before his horse was moving in the opposite direction. 'This is surely one of General Vincente's horses, said the priest; 'we have few such barbs in Ronda.
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