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'I should have given the confounded letter to the Alcalde of Ronda if it had not been that a lady would have suffered for it, and let you take your chance, Senor Larralde. Larralde shrugged his shoulders. 'You would not have given it to the Alcalde of Ronda, he said in a sneering voice, 'because you want it yourself. You require it in order to make your peace with Estella Vincente.
Estella he saw and recognised, while two mounted attendants clattering in the rear of the carriage testified by their presence to the fact that the General had taken the road again. 'It is well, said Larralde to himself. 'They are all going back to Ronda, and Julia will be rid of their influence. Ronda will serve as well as Toledo so far as Vincente is concerned.
The General rose from the table. 'How did she get in here? he asked sharply. 'By the side door in the Calle de la Ciudad. The keeper of that door, Excellency, is a mule. The senorita forced him to admit her. The sex can do so much, he added, with a tolerant shrug of the shoulders. 'And the other this Larralde?
If Conyngham agrees, he must meet you at the back of the Church of Santo Tome in the Calle Pedro Martir here, in Toledo, next Monday evening at seven o'clock. Will you write this letter, Julia? 'And Estella Vincente? inquired Julia. 'She will forget him in a week, laughed Larralde. 'Who knows? the man is proven by the hour. After the great storm came a calm almost as startling.
'Well, senor, he said, with a false air of bravado. 'How fares it with your little undertaking? 'That, replied Sir John, 'is past and paid for. And I have another matter for your consideration. Conyngham is not, after all, the man I seek. Sir John's manner had changed. He spoke as one having authority. And Larralde shrugged his shoulders, remembering a past payment.
'Enough to risk everything, she answered. 'I have tried to gain a great position for you, went on Larralde, 'and fortune has been against me. I have failed. The Carlist cause is dead, Julia. Our chief has failed us that is the truth of it. We set him up as a king, but unless we hold him upright he falls. He is a man of straw.
The sun rose also over the plains of Xeres, and lighted up the picturesque form of Esteban Larralde, in the saddle this hour and more, having learnt that Colonel Monreal's death took place an hour before Conyngham's arrival in the town of Xeres de la Frontera. The letter, therefore, had not been delivered to Colonel Monreal, and was still in Conyngham's possession.
'And I also, said Larralde, flicking the ash from his cigarette. 'A young fellow who has made himself somewhat notorious in the Royalist cause a cause in which I admit I have no sympathy. His name is Conyngham. Then a silence fell upon the two men, and over raised glasses they glanced surreptitiously at each other.
'So far as I am concerned, said Sir John, rising, 'you are safe in this or any country. But I warn you you have a dangerous enemy in Spain. 'I know, answered Conyngham, with a laugh, 'Mr. Esteban Larralde. I once undertook to deliver a letter for him. It was not what he represented it to be, and after I had delivered it he began to suspect me of having read it.
'Ah! he said, rolling a cigarette with a fine air of indifference. 'On the one hand, continued Sir John judicially, 'I come to make you an offer which can only be beneficial to you; on the other hand, Senor Larralde, I know enough to make things particularly unpleasant for you. Larralde raised his eyebrows and sought the matchbox. His thoughts seemed to amuse him.
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