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She took it with an impatient gesture. "A letter to you and none to me! Surely he must have written, and the letter has miscarried." "No doubt, madam," replied the captain of the Maritana in the same stiff tones. Mrs. Brabant motioned him to a seat as she read the letter, first telling Minea, the Samoan maid, who was present, to leave the room.
The Chileno, morose and grim as he was, was intensely devoted to Brabant, who had twice saved his life once under a heavy rifle fire in the Solomon Islands, when Diaz and his boat's crew were all but cut off and massacred by the natives, and Brabant came out of the fray with a broken arm and a bullet through his shoulder; and once at sea, when he was knocked overboard by the parting of a boom guy, and his captain sprang overboard after him, though the night was as dark as pitch, and the Maritana was like to have been smothered by the heavy, lumping seas which fell upon her decks when she was brought to.
During this time Captain Danvers was an occasional visitor to the bungalow on the hill, but he and Brabant met very frequently in the town to discuss business together, and it soon became known that the latter either intended to sell out to, or amalgamate with, the Danvers company. Ten days before the Maritana left Brabant bade his wife goodbye, for the Loelia was to sail first.
Don José promises the condemned man that he shall be shot instead of hanged, if he will consent to marry a veiled lady an hour before the execution, intending thus to give Maritana a position at court as the widow of a nobleman.
The last act opens in a palace belonging to the King, where Maritana is surrounded with luxury, though she is as yet unaware that she is in the royal apartments. Don José, fancying that Don Caesar will not dare to make his appearance, as he does not know of his pardon, carries out his plot by introducing the King to her as her husband.
I know how anxious she is to see "Maritana." Now, try if she will resign this pleasure for the sake of doing good. Of course, you must not let her know you have previously asked her cousin. Will you do it? It can do no harm, and may he productive of much good." "Yes, father, I will put her to the test. But I will not promise that the issue shall decide my future course.
'Who is this? cried he, after some seconds. 'She's an actress. That's something like what the girl wears in Don Cæsar de Bazan. To be sure, she is Maritana. She's stunningly beautiful. Do you mean to tell me, Dick, that there's a girl like that on your provincial boards? 'I never said so, any more than I gave you leave to examine the contents of my letters, said the other haughtily.
The Chileno turned his face slowly towards him. "You shall not die alone, Señor Danvers. You shall have company good company." One evening Captain Lester of the Maritana, then lying in Sydney harbour "awaiting orders," called on Mrs. Brabant at the Royal Hotel. "I have just received this from Captain Brabant, madam," he said with studied, but cold politeness, as he handed her a letter.
But I do hope you will come to terms with Captain Danvers and his company." "Wait a moment, Nell. I want to tell you something which I think will please you. Would you like a trip to Sydney?" "Very much indeed," she answered, with sudden graciousness. "Well, I'm thinking of sending the Maritana there, to be docked and to be overhauled, with Lester in command.
Don Cæsar finds his way to a villa in the outskirts of Madrid, where he not only has the satisfaction of putting a stop to the King's attentions to Maritana, but performs the same kind office for the Queen, who is being persecuted by Don José. For the latter performance he receives a free pardon, and is made Governor of Valentia.
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