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Updated: May 5, 2025
Near the trenches are to be seen the remains of battlemented walls, tiles, and ruins of an ancient settlement, perhaps destroyed by the waters of the river which in time undermined its foundations. From the Miradero one sees the bridge below, as from a balloon, with men, riding horses, and carts going over it, all diminished by the distance.
How and when the encounter might take place, he did not trouble himself to consider. The whole universe was moulded and set for that event. Meantime the glory was about him; he could remember, recall, repeat, interpret.... For the hundredth time or was it the thousandth? he reconstructed that last hour of theirs together in the station at Miradero, waiting for the train.
Near the river are truck-gardens and orchards of almonds and other fruit trees. In the afternoon, looking from the Miradero, from the height where Castro stands, one feels overcome by this sea of earth, by the vast horizon, and the profound silence.
"Are you ready?" he asked briefly. "I can be in fifteen minutes." She turned away, asking no questions. "Dress warmly," he said. "It's an all-night trip. By the way, can you swim?" "For hours at a time." Camilla Van Arsdale entered the room. "Are you taking her away, Ban? Where?" "To Miradero, on the Southwestern and Sierra." "But that's insanity," protested the other. "Sixty miles, isn't it?
And she the poor Sagrario, crazy with love, flattered by her cadet, as proud as possible when she walked on Sundays through the Zocodover and the Miradero between her mother and that handsome young lover, that all the girls in the place envied her.
From the promenade beside the church, which is called the Miradero, one can see the great valley that surrounds Castro, a plain without an end, flat and empty. At the foot of the hill that supports the city, a broad river, which formerly kissed the old walls, marks a huge S with a sand border. The water of the river covers the beach in winter, and leaves it half uncovered in summer.
"We'll wire you from Miradero," she promised. "You'll find the message in the morning." The woman, mastering herself with a difficult effort, held out her hand to Banneker. "If you won't be persuaded," she said, "then good " "No," he broke in quickly. "That's bad luck. We shall be all right." "Good luck, then," returned his friend, and turned away into the night.
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