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Updated: May 10, 2025
"You'll get your money. Anthony told me he'd square up on pay- day." Weeks snorted at this. "Why, I've got it already. I've been paid. Mrs. Cortlandt sent me her check." He stared at his companion curiously. "Funny, isn't it, how I got called down and Ramen Alfarez got fired on his account? What does it mean?" He winked one red eye in a manner that set Runnels to thinking deeply.
Garavel, are one of the few who are clear-headed enough to see that her destiny is linked with ours, and there is no one who can direct her so well as you." "It is impossible!" repeated Garavel, his agitation growing more pronounced. "General Alfarez is my friend. His son will be my son." "Ramon! Is Ramon engaged to your daughter?" "Yes," exclaimed the banker, shortly. He began to pace the room.
"Speaking of David," his wife added; "it was you who first projected the railroad to that point, Senor Garavel." "Yes, I saw that it was needed. It would make Panama," he said, simply. "Under your administration it can be built. Mr. Cortlandt can assure you of our government's earnest co-operation. That would not be the case if General Alfarez were elected.
"I'm not sure my information is entirely correct, but, knowing who she is, I think I understand why she is in Panama. It is politics big politics. The Spiggoties have an election next year, and it is necessary to get our wires well laid before it comes off. General Alfarez will probably be the next president." "Alfarez! Not Ramon?" "His father.
Cortlandt queried, incredulously. "God!" "That's the fellow yonder." Kirk pointed to Alfarez, whose smile had disappeared. "Oh, the man is mistake'," the latter hastened to aver. "He is crazee." "I gave you a wetting in public, and " "Si, si! That is correc', Senor Cortlan'. He insolt my person an' fight my soldiers. He is ver' toff person." "Did you know he had been maltreated in prison?"
I am swept away, and yet I I will need to think seriously." "Certainly." "To an honorable man the salary will mean nothing. I have many affairs; I fear I cannot afford this sacrifice." "Would you retire in favor of some one who could afford it?" "Alfarez is honest." "Alfarez cannot be President." "It would require a great deal of money.
W'at is this?" Alfarez bustled into the conversation. "Embezzle? He is then a t'ief?" "Exactly. If you're the inspector I'll ask you to make this arrest for me. I believe we're on foreign ground." "That's right, Alfarez," came the voice of John Weeks, anxious to have a word in the affair. "I'll vouch for Mr. Williams.
"There will be no to-morrow about it," Mrs. Cortlandt exclaimed, positively. "If you cannot arrange the bail yourself, my husband will take up the matter with the Zone Government, and Colonel Jolson will call upon the President of the republic within an hour. He is waiting word from us now." Senor Ramon Alfarez became suddenly galvanized.
Diego Martinez brought to the three others brevets, signed nineteen days after this deed of blood, by Philip II. and Perez, of alfarez, or ensign in the royal service, with an income of twenty gold crowns. They then smilingly dispersed, as the play directs, "you that way, I this way." Such blood will not sink in the ground.
Runnels' face blanched, and he drew back. "Then of course you know?" "What?" "About Cortlandt. He's dead!" It was Kirk's turn to start and grow pale. The last cobweb was swept from his brain, and he gasped: "DEAD! When? Where? How did it happen?" "Nobody knows just how. He was found on the sea-wall near Alfarez' house, shot." "Shot! Good Lord!"
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