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That sort of adventurer is always dangerous." He rang the bell, and on Miss Cheyne's appearance called for what information the office had concerning Mario Escobar. Miss Cheyne returned with a book in which Escobar's dossier was included. "Here he is," said Graham, and Hillyard, moving across to the bureau, followed Graham's forefinger across the written page.
This discovery, he felt, was of deep importance, it explained so much that was apparently inexplicable. Charles Abbott asserted silently, dogmatically, that a failure of spirit had occurred ... there was no longer such supreme honor as Andrés Escobar's.
For at that moment Mario Escobar raised his dark, sleek head, and his big, soft eyes the eyes of a beautiful woman looked upwards to the box. It seemed to Hillyard for a moment that they actually exchanged a glance, though he himself was out of sight behind the curtain, so direct was Escobar's gaze. It was, however, merely the emptiness of the box which had drawn the Spaniard's attention.
How many times since '92 has there been touching here? Of need now it will be oftener and oftener!" But still many pined with hope deferred. And then, out of the blue, arose first Diego de Escobar's small ship, and later the two good ships sent by Don Nicholas de Ovando. The Admiral of the Ocean-Sea lodged in the Governor's house in San Domingo.
"Si, Señor Capitan. It is Ramorez. And the luck is fine!" "You have her?" Escobar's tone was exultant. "Just outside. Sancho is bringing her. I am here for orders. Where shall we take her?" "Here. Into the house. Señorita Castelmar knows everything and is with us." Ramorez swung back up into the saddle and spurred away, gone into the darkness under the trees toward the gate.
One, finally, attracted by the mantón on Pilar de Lima, called the attention of the others to her Chinese characteristics. They all leaned forward, engaged by the total pallor of her immobility above the blazing silk. They exclaimed when she left the Spanish officer and resumed her place by Andrés Escobar's side. "Isn't that peculiar?" Charles was asked.
No recollection was stirred in him by Escobar's description. Escobar turned away, but he could not quite conceal the relief he felt. "Yes, my friend," said Hardiman to himself, "you have taken your water-jump too. And you're uncommonly glad that you haven't come a cropper." After that noticeable moment of tension, the talk swept on into sprightlier channels. "Shall I take you home?"
Andrés Escobar's face darkened. "It had occurred to me you might refuse," he replied. "Then there is nothing for me to do. But it surprises me, when I remember the circumstances, that you have such a tender feeling for it. After all, it wasn't a souvenir of love; you never lost an opportunity to say how worn you were with La Clavel."
Supper was half through when Escobar leaned suddenly forward. "Mr. Hillyard, I have seen you before, somewhere and not in England." "That is possible." "In Spain?" "Yes," answered Hillyard. A certain curiosity in Escobar's voice, a certain reticence in Hillyard's, arrested the attention of those about. "Let me see!" continued Escobar.
After Escobar's departure, Columbus sent an embassy on shore to communicate with the rebel party, who were living on the island. He offered to them free pardon, kind treatment, and a passage with him in the ships which he expected from Ovando, and, as a token of good will, he sent them a part of the bacon which Escobar had brought them.
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