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Updated: June 4, 2025
Senor Ruiz Contreras says that he made me known, but the fact is that nobody knew me in those days; Senor Ruiz Contreras flatters himself that he did me a great favour by publishing my articles, at a cost to me, at the very least, of two or three duros apiece. If this is to be a patron of letters, I should like to patronize half the planet.
In his broken Spanish he repeated, growling like a bad-tempered wild beast, that if an opening ever so small were made in the stockade his men would march in and get the senora not otherwise. "Gaspar Ruiz, sitting opposite him, kept his eyes fixed on the fort night and day as it were, in awful silence and immobility.
When sufficiently tamed by the strength of Gaspar Ruiz they came up one by one, stretching their necks and presenting their lips to the edge of the bucket which the strong man tilted towards them from his knees with an extraordinary air of charity, gentleness, and compassion.
"It was long enough for me, and I was out in the open and stirring. It must have been a slice of torment for you here alone all day, not even knowing if I'd ever get back or have any food when I came." "I knew you'd come," said Betty. "But it was lonesome and shivery." He told her of his day and finally of the man he had seen across the cañon. Further, of his suspicion that it was Ruiz Rios.
But almost with the first glimpse there came the quick suspicion that it was Ruiz Rios. He saw something white in the man's hand; a handkerchief since the gesture was one of wiping a wet forehead. And on that slender evidence Kendric's belief established itself.
General Santierra began his service as lieutenant in the patriot army raised and commanded by the famous San Martin, afterwards conqueror of Lima and liberator of Peru. A great battle had just been fought on the banks of the river Bio-Bio. Amongst the prisoners made upon the routed Royalist troops there was a soldier called Gaspar Ruiz.
But when he opened the door it was Ruiz Rios who slipped noiselessly into the room, swiftly closing and locking the door after him. "Not in bed yet, my friend?" smiled Rios. "It is well. I have something to say to you." Kendric went back to his chair from which he eyed Rios narrowly. The Mexican's look was full of craft. "Let's have it, Rios. What now?"
Fitfully voices had come to them from the patio where Ruiz Rios and the rebel captain were arguing, but Jim and Betty with their own problem occupying their minds had paid scant attention. Now a sudden exclamation arrested both words and thought, a sharp cry of bitter anger and more than anger; there was rage and menace in the intonation.
It seems certain that the Civil Governor began to tamper with his officers, and that Gaspar Ruiz discovered the fact. "One evening, when the Governor was giving a tertullia Gaspar Ruiz, followed by six men he could trust, appeared riding through the town to the door of the Government House, and entered the sala armed, his hat on his head.
"You think you know such a lot and are so advanced, yet you are as easily scared or fooled as any country maiden in Victorian times." "My dear aunt, Don Carlos de Ruiz can neither scare nor fool me," protested Myra; "but surely I have a right to object to his attempting to make love to me when he knows I am engaged to Tony Standish."
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