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At length they crossed the summit and worked down toward the Yumuri, but it seemed as if daylight would never come. "A weary ride," Esteban yawned. "I shall sleep for a week." Asensio agreed. "That Cueto will be furious," said he. "Some day, perhaps, he and I will meet face to face. Then I shall kill him." Esteban reined in his horse. "Look!" said he. "Yonder is a light."
They found some difficulty in executing this measure, as Diego Alvarez de Cueto, who commanded the fleet, on seeing the assemblage of people on the shore, and learning that they had the viceroy among them as a prisoner, sent Jerom de Zurbano, one of his captains in an armed boat to collect all the boats of the fleet, with which, accompaniment he approached the shore and demanded the liberation of the viceroy from the judges.
Is it not better for you to be content with what my generosity prompts me to give, rather than to risk ruin for both of us by grasping for too much?" "Merciful God! The outrage! I warrant you have grown rich through your stealing." Isabel's voice had gone flat with consternation. "Rich? Well, not exactly, but comfortably well off." Cueto actually smiled again.
There was a creak of saddle leathers and a groan as the colonel dismounted. "Now, my good Cueto," he threatened, "another of your mistakes and I'll give you something to remember me by. Damnation! What a night! As black as hell." "It will be daylight before we know it," the other said, nervously. "Excellent! Then I can see to deal with you if you've fooled me."
They might perhaps have easily persuaded Cueto to give up the fleet, of which in reality Jerom de Zurbano had more the command than he, as all the soldiers and sailors who were attached to the deposed viceroy were at his disposal; but Zurbano, to whom the judges made great offers, was quite inflexible.
I shall make you as handsome a present as my circumstances will permit in recognition of your long and faithful service." Then Pancho Cueto did an unexpected thing: he laughed shortly and shook his head. Dona Isabel was ready to faint and her voice quavered as she went on: "Understand me, we part the best of friends despite all I have heard against you.
Doctor Texada and Francisco Maldonado escaped likewise to the same port, where they all embarked together for Spain. Texada died on the voyage while passing the Bahamas. On their arrival in Spain, Moldonado and Cueto went directly to Germany, where the emperor Don Carlos then was, where each gave an account of the business with which they were entrusted.
But see! You have given yourself away. Everything you tell me proves that you know all about that treasure." "I know but one thing," the slave declared, stiffening himself slowly, "and that is to be faithful to Don Esteban." He turned and departed, leaving Pancho Cueto staring after him meditatively.
Of course nobody outside of our family credits the old story, and yet my father was considered a very rich man at one time. Pancho Cueto believed in the existence of the treasure, and he was in a position to know." "True! Perhaps, after all " O'Reilly frowned meditatively. Rosa lifted herself upon her elbow, her eyes sparkling. "Wouldn't it be wonderful if it were true?
Cueto nodded his complete approval of this program. "Oh, decidedly," said he. "This spirit of violence must be stamped out or none of us will be safe. Let me tell you I myself live in constant dread of that young villain, Varona. I hope you haven't forgotten him." "Forgotten him?" Colonel Cobo fingered a lately healed scar which further disfigured his ugly face, then he cursed frightfully.
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