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In spite of this denial, Fragoso pushed back the man who guarded the entrance, and with a bound threw himself into the judge's study. "I come from the province where Torres pursued his calling as captain of the woods!" he gasped. "Mr. Judge, Torres told the truth. Stop stop the execution?" "You found the gang?" "Yes." "And you have brought me the cipher of the document?" Fragoso did not reply.
No one, not even Lina, could explain the absence of so devoted a servant at such a crisis. Some of them even asked, and not without reason, if the poor fellow, rendered desperate at having, when he met him on the frontier, personally contributed to bringing Torres on board the raft, had not made away with himself. But if Fragoso could so reproach himself, how about Benito?
"It is rather as if we were returning from exile voluntary exile! Do your best; I approve beforehand of what you do." On Minha and Lina, to whom were added of their own free will Manoel on the one side and Fragoso on the other, devolved the care of decorating the inside of the house. With some imagination and a little artistic feeling the result was highly satisfactory.
A moment after Torres continued the conversation which this question of Fragoso had interrupted, with: "How did you come from Iquitos?" "From Iquitos to Tabatinga?" "Yes." "On board a raft, on which I was given a passage by a worthy fazender who is going down the Amazon with his family." "A friend indeed!" replied Torres. "That is a chance, and if your fazender would take me "
A long array of anxious ones formed itself in the square. The happy ones coming from the hands of Fragoso went proudly from one house to another, showed themselves off without daring to shake themselves, like the big children that they were.
"And what would you do with this diamond worth something considerable, Fragoso?" queried Lina. "Sell it!" "Then you would get rich all of a sudden!" "Very rich!" "Well, if you had been rich three months ago you would never have had the idea of that liana!" "And if I had not had that," exclaimed Fragoso, "I should not have found a charming little wife who well, assuredly, all is for the best!"
Fragoso ended by exclaiming; "but it is not to me that all this happiness is due, it is due to Lina!" "To me?" replied the young mulatto. "No doubt of it. Without the liana, without the idea of the liana, could I ever have been the cause of so much happiness?"
Judge Jarriquez!" shouted Fragoso, and panting and bewildered he rushed toward the city gate, dashed up the principal street of Manaos, and fell half-dead on the threshold of the judge's house. The door was shut. Fragoso had still strength enough left to knock at it. One of the magistrate's servants came to open it; his master would see no one.
Fragoso put down the irons for the scissors, and, after the manner of his brethren, said: "What can I do for you, sir?" "Cut my beard and my hair," answered the stranger. "All right!" said Fragoso, inserting his comb into the mass of hair. And then the scissors to do their work. "And you come from far?" asked Fragoso, who could not work without a good deal to say.
In a minute," said Fragoso. "Wait till I have finished with this lady!" And this was done in a couple of strokes with the curling-tongs. Although he was the last comer, and had no right to the vacant place, he sat down on the stool without causing any expostulation on the part of the natives who lost a turn.
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