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Embleton, the conduct of the Chilians in that matter of the Carreras shows that, however bravely they may fight, as yet they have not much idea of subordination.
Bedient laughed softly. It was all delightfully young to him. "Then Señor Rey aspires?" "That's the idea only we put it 'conspires' down here.... It is really a remarkable institution this of Señor Rey's," Carreras went on. He forgot himself in a narrative.
As unlikely a man as you would find in the Pacific, or any other merchant-service, was this Carreras; a gentleman, if a very bashful one; a deeply-read and kindly man, although it was quite as difficult for him to extend a generous action, directly to be found out, and his mind was continually furnishing inclinations of this sort, as it was to express his thoughts.
Wisely deeming it right to set aside every other consideration than the necessity of saving Chili from the danger pressing upon it from without, O'Higgins effected a junction with the Carreras, hoping thus to bring the whole force of the republic against the royalist army, larger than its predecessors, which was marching towards Santiago and Valparaiso.
"As a war correspondent," Miss Mallory remarked, "I am rather a spectacular failure." "It's a boy's game," said Bedient. They sailed around open water until daybreak, when Bedient brought the Savonarola into a river-mouth on Carreras land, and forcing her in out of the current, dropped anchor. The small boat was launched and pulled ashore. Six, a silent and weary six, they were.
Either brought on a nervous tension which left him shaken and drained. The right woman would have adored Captain Carreras, and doubtless would have called forth from his breast a love of heroic dimension; but she would have been forced to do the winning; to speak and take the initiative in all but the giving of happiness.
The Captain was past riding a great deal, and the large hill and river property the coffee, cacao, cotton, cane and tobacco industries profited much better with an overseer. Still Bedient slowly realized that the hundreds of natives in touch with Captain Carreras' plantations worked about as well for him as they knew.
On the day they parted, the Captain said there would be a letter for Bedient, on or before July first of every year, sent care the "Marigold, New York."... The old embarrassment intervened at the last moment but the younger man did not miss the Captain's heart-break. The first letter from Captain Carreras was a real experience for Bedient.
Captain Carreras found much to do in the city, but he did not tell Bedient that the real reason for his remaining four days was that he couldn't sooner summon courage for the long ride home. He spoke but little regarding the reasons Jaffier had called him. "He's afraid of Celestino Rey, and likely has good reason," said the Captain wearily.
He had felt, if the right person were near, he could have made music tell things, not to be uttered in mere words; and under the magic of certain songs, that which was creative within him, even dim and chaotic, stirred and warmed for utterance.... So fresh a surface did Bedient bring to the Carreras music-room. The time had come when his nature hungered for great music.
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