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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Only to-day, just now, have I learned that he paid the bill for white paper one hundred and forty dollars." "There are his absences," said May Sethby. "He never explains them." "We should set a spy upon him," Ramos propounded. "I should not care to be that spy," said Vera. "I fear you would never see me again, save to bury me. He has a terrible passion.
O'Reilly shot her a quick glance. "Major Ramos himself gave that story to the news-papers; it's all a part of his plan. I promised not to tell, but I just can't help myself. Gee! I'm having a good time." Leslie Branch shook his head mournfully. "You may enjoy it, but I don't," he grumbled. "We'll end by being pinched, and that will finish me. One week in a damp cell, with my lungs "
Payne looked toward the boat landing instinctively. The girl of the dawn on Gumbo Key was coming toward them, laughing; and the trees and the vine flowers and the sun all seemed to laugh with her. "Oh, it's you, is it?" she said. "And the red-haired man, too!" "Auburn!" protested Higgins, baring his fiery poll. "The best barbers of the West have told me it's auburn." Ramos bowed deferentially.
Tiflin snaked a cigarette out from inside the collar of his Archer. "Hey!" Reynolds said mildly. "Oxygen, remember? Shouldn't you ask our host, first?" Ramos had eased up on ribbing Tiflin months ago. "It's okay," he said. "The air-restorers are new." But Tiflin's explosive nerves, under strain for a long time, didn't take it. He threw down the unlighted fag.
"They are wanted more in Villahorrenda. Brave men chafe at being kept in the house; is it not so, Senor Canon?" "Senor Ramos, that house ought not to be left unprotected," said the Penitentiary. "The servants are enough, and more than enough. But do you suppose, Senor Don Inocencio, that the brigadier employs himself in attacking the people's houses?"
With a bluntness not unkind he asked O'Reilly what had brought him to Cuba, Then before the young man could answer he gestured with a letter in his hand, saying: "Major Ramos gives you splendid credit for helping him to land his expedition, but he says you didn't come to fight with us. What does he mean?" When O'Reilly explained the reason for his presence the old fighter nodded. "So?
It has appeared strange to me that having told it to no one but yourself, it should be known here in all its details how he entered the garden; how he fired on Caballuco when the latter attacked him with his dagger; how Ramos then fired on him with so sure an aim that he fell to the ground mortally wounded.
And they knew enough to steer clear of Ceres, the largest Asteroid, which was Tovie-occupied. All the signs were good. They were well-armed and watchful. They should have made the trip without trouble. Ahead, dim still with distance, but glinting with a pinkish, metallic shine which made it much brighter than it would otherwise have been, was Pallas, which Ramos watched like a beacon.
But she got back most of her poise. Women have nursed the messily ill and dying, and have tended ghastly wounds during ages of time. So they know the messier side of biology as well as men. Ramos gave the pathetic relic to a cop who was trying to take charge. "Somebody must have goofed bad on the Far Side, for it to miss orbit like that," Ramos grated. "Or was something wrong, beforehand?
When he had gone the three Americans followed their new guide through the iron gates. Major Ramos proved that he knew how to obey orders even though the other members of his party did not.
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