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Updated: May 22, 2025
Dunlap," he explained, as he led up to the object of his visit, "the time has come to overthrow the regime in Central America for a revolution which will bring together all the countries in a union like the old United States of Central America." He had spread out the map on the table. "Only," he added, "we would call the new state, Vespuccia." "We?" queried Constance.
"We come," she began, "my father and I for my mother died when I was a little girl we come from the northern part of Vespuccia, where foreign capitalists are much interested in the introduction of a new rubber plant.
By way of explanation, I may add that during the rubber boom Kennedy had invested in stock of a rubber company in Vespuccia, and that its value had been shrinking for some time with that elasticity which a rubber band shows when one party suddenly lets go his end.
I do not go, for they are all much older people than I. I know the senora well, but I prefer a different kind of person. My friends are younger and perhaps more radical, more in earnest about the future of Vespuccia. "For some weeks it has seemed to me that this Senora Mendez has had too much influence over my father. He does not seem like the same man he used to be.
Senora Barrios and myself fled from Vespuccia to Mexico at the start of our revolution, and when the Mexican government ordered us to leave on account of our political activity we merely crossed the line to the United States, in New Mexico. It was there that we ran across this very curious discovery.
"You know well enough what I mean this revolution that is being planned to bring about the new state of Vespuccia, as your friends Santos and Gordon call it." "Vespuccia Santos Gordon?" "Yes," he shouted, "Vespuccia Santos Gordon. And I'll go further. I'll tell you something you may not care to hear." Drummond leaned over closer to her in his favorite bulldozing manner when he dealt with a woman.
It was, I recall, at that period of the late unpleasantness in the little Central American republic of Vespuccia, when things looked darkest for American investors, that I hurried home one evening to Kennedy, bursting with news.
Jameson, that although my father is a large land-owner, he has very liberal political views and is deeply in sympathy with the revolution that is now going on in Vespuccia. In fact, we were forced to flee very early in the trouble, and as there seemed to be more need of his services here in New York than in any of the neighbouring countries, we came here.
The monotonous beat of that melody you heard is supposed to represent the beating of the tom-toms of the Indians during their mescal rites. We are having a mescal evening here, whiling away the hours of exile from our native Vespuccia." "Mescal?" I repeated blankly at first, then feeling a nudge from Kennedy, I added hastily: "Oh, yes, to be sure. I think I have heard of it.
I made my entry at that ball preceded and surrounded by an army of solemn stewards, wearing huge wigs, and with rather a good-looking woman, whom nobody knew, on my arm. She called herself America Vespuccia, and she began to swear like any heathen when somebody spilt a glass of lemonade over her fine velvet gown.
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