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"As Governor of Panama Province, he's the logical next President. Besides that, he has the machinery behind him. I don't see who there is to defeat him." "We argued the same thing. She thinks Garavel is the proper man." "Garavel is a banker; he's not a politician." The chief-engineer laughed. "All Spanish-Americans are politicians, Colonel; they can't help it." "Would he accept?"
Williams wheeled and cursed the fat man furiously. It was during the lunch-hour that Ramon Alfarez called at the Garavel home, finding the banker and his daughter still loitering over their midday meal and discussing the topic that had electrified the whole city. "Ah, Ramon!" the old gentleman began, eagerly. "Be seated and tell us quickly the latest news.
Cortlandt checked him, saying, quietly: "That is all right as far as it goes, but you forget the other young man." Garavel paused in his heavy strides across the room. "Eh? How so? Gertrudis will not marry this Anthony." "Perhaps she loves him." "Love is a fancy, a something seen through a distant haze, an illusion which vanishes with the sun.
I frightened Garavel into dismissing him, and I set out to break him, just to show him that he needed me. To-night I offered to divorce you and make him all and more than I've made you, but he scorned me. That's the truth, Stephen. If we believed in oaths, I would swear it."
"No, but I'm going to be. You talk about YOUR troubles; now listen to mine. I'll make you weep like a fog." Briefly he told his friend of the blow that had so suddenly fallen upon him. "You ARE up against it, old man," agreed Runnels, when he had heard all. "Garavel has set his heart on the Presidency, and he'll pay any price to get it.
At the same time he couldn't help thinking that his efforts had entitled him to reasonable success, and, anyhow, it was pleasant to feel that at no point in his scramble up the ladder had he elbowed off some other man more deserving, perhaps, than he. This last advancement, too, was very timely, for it would surely have its effect upon Andres Garavel.
We mustn't be in too great a hurry, though. Things are going smoothly, and when the time comes you will be called for. But it must be the voice of the people calling. Bocas, Chiriqui, Colon they must all demand Garavel." Cortlandt sighed. "I shall be very glad when it is over." He looked more pale, more bloodless, more world-weary than ever.
After that, I sort of neglected it. You see, I am more of a Catholic than anything else." "What we call a 'bad Catholic'?" "Yes, sir. But if I were not, it wouldn't make any difference. Chiquita is my religion." "Who?" The father started. "I I call her that," Kirk explained, in confusion. "To myself, of course." "Indeed! So do I," said Senor Garavel, dryly. For a moment he frowned in meditation.
"In what capacity is he employed, may I ask?" said Garavel, showing something like real interest. Kirk grinned at this, and, seeing a copy of Bradstreet's on the banker's table, turned to his father's name, which he pointed out rather shamefacedly. Senor Garavel became instantly less distant. "Of course the financial world knows Darwin K. Anthony," said he.
Not until the negress had entered did the grandmother retire, which showed, so Kirk imagined, that even yet the Garavel household had no more confidence in him than in a badgeless building inspector. He was not grateful for the change, for he did not like Stephanie, and, judging from the sombre suspicion of the black woman's glances, the feeling was mutual.
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