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Updated: June 13, 2025
Don Augustin awaited with the greatest impatience, the return of Gayferos; but they sought him in vain. He had disappeared. We shall presently explain the motive of his departure. Almost at the same moment in which the haciendado and his daughter were informed of it, another attendant entered to announce that Tragaduros was dismounting in the court-yard of the hacienda.
"I have a presentiment of the fate which awaits me," replied Don Estevan without answering the adventurer's interrogation. "A faithful subject will be lost to his king Don Carlos the First. But you will carry on my work? you will restore the prosperity of Sonora. You will return to the Senator Tragaduros he knows what he has to do, and you will support him?"
Tragaduros had been dreaming of the court of the King of Spain. "What is it, your grace?" "I come to take leave of you, and to give you my final instructions." "Eh! what?" said the Senator. "Is the hour late? or have I been three days asleep?" "No," gravely replied the Spaniard, "but there is a serious danger that menaces our projects both yours and mine.
The affrighted look of the Senator offered a striking contrast to the countenance of Don Estevan, which still preserved its calm rigidity. "It is good advice this faithful servant gives us," said Tragaduros, rising to do as Benito had suggested. "Come, Benito," said Don Estevan, "these are nothing but hunter's stories you have been telling, and you wish to frighten these novices? Is it not so?"
"The Senor Tragaduros y Despilfarro, will find the shade of one of these cottages more agreeable," interposed Cuchillo, who knew the senator of Arispe. He knew, moreover, that the latter had attached himself to the fortunes of Don Estevan, in default of better cause: and in hopes of repairing his own fortune, long since dissipated.
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