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Updated: May 8, 2025
"If you don't have a care, I'll complain of you, Ruez, for that piece of business in the guardhouse!" "I've no fear about that now, since it has resulted so well." "That's true; but it is really perplexing to have you always right. I do declare, Ruez, I wish you would do something that will really vex me so that I can have a good quarrel with you." "No you don't, sister." "Yes, I do."
"And has already carved a name for himself in Spanish history," said Ruez. "True." "Then I see not how you can complain of him on the score of position." "No; but he's poor, and I have sworn that no man, unless he brings as large a fortune as Isabella will have in her own right, shall marry her. How do I know but it may be the money, not Isabella, that he wants?" "Father!" "Well, Ruez."
Well, I told him General Harero would not admit me, and when I told him all " "All of what, Ruez?" "Why, about you and me, and sister and father. He said, 'Boy, you are worthy of confidence and love; here, take this, it will pass you to the prison, and to Captain Bezan's cell; and he wrote me this on a card, and said I could come and see you by presenting it to the guard, when I pleased."
"And, O, sir, I have not thanked you for that gallant deed," said Isabella Gonzales, extending her hand incontinently to Captain Bezan, in the enthusiasm of the moment, influenced by the sincerity of her feelings, his noble and manly bearing, and the kind and touching words he had uttered to Ruez. It would be difficult for us to describe her as she appeared at that moment in the soldier's eye.
No wonder Ruez loved his sister so dearly; no wonder he felt proud of her while he gazed at her there; nor was it strange that he strove to read her heart as he did, though he kept his own counsel upon the subject. He was a most observant boy, as we have seen before in these pages, but not one to manifest all of his observations or thoughts.
"Well, tell me of your father and sister, Ruez. You know I am a hermit here."
Isabella herself sat with an easy and graceful air of unconsciousness, bowing low to the meaningless compliments and remarks of General Harero, and now smiling at some pleasantry of Ruez who was close to her side, and now again regarding for a moment the tall, manly figure of an officer near the proscenium box, who was on duty there, and evidently the officer of the evening.
"Did you notice how stoutly that Lieutenant Bezan swam with me?" "Yes, brother. You forget, though, that he is Captain Bezan now," she added. "Father told me so," said the boy. "How fearfully the tide ran, and the current set against us! He held me way up above the water, while he was quite under it himself," continued Ruez. "I was sure he would drown; didn't it seem so to you, sister?"
Ruez turned away from his sister with an expression in his face that made her start; for he began to read his sister's heart, young as he was, better than she knew it herself.
"I proposed to return there immediately, General Harero, and stopped here but for one moment," said the young officer, with a burning cheek, at the intended insult. "Shall I put my words in the form of an order?" continued General Harero, seeing that Bezan paused to assist Ruez once more over the seats to his position in the box.
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