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The only thing it has done is to distinguish two forms of change: one, the slow variation already verified by everybody, the other the brusque variation pointed out by Hugo de Vries. We see now that the impulses, which in politics are called evolution and revolution, are only reflexions of Nature's movements." "So then, we may hope that Castro Duro will change into an Athens?" asked Alzugaray.
On arriving at Paris next evening, he left his luggage in the hotel at the Quai d'Orsay station. He wired his address to the Minister and to Alzugaray, and went out at once to look for Carlos Yarza. He was unable to find him until very late at night. He explained to his friend what had brought him, and Yarza told him he was at his disposition. "When you need me, let me know." "Good."
"Let it alone," Caesar would say. "You know our agreement. You get ten percent of the profits for giving the orders. Do not mix in any further." Often, on seeing the positive result of Caesar's speculations, Alzugaray would ask him: "Do you find out at the Ministry what is going to happen?" "Pshaw!" Caesar would say; "the market is not a capricious thing, as you think. There are signs.
"I think, my dear Alzugaray," said Caesar, "that I can say, like my namesake Julius: 'Veni, vidi, vice." "The devil! The first day?" "Yes." "Show me. What happened?" "I left the house and entered the cafe downstairs. There was no one there but a small boy, from whom I ordered a bottle of beer and asked if there was a newspaper published here.
He arrived at Madrid, took a bath, and went to see the Minister; and after the interview went to his house in the Calle de Galileo and spent two days in bed, alone in the completest silence. The third day Alzugaray arrived, anxious. "What's the matter? Are you sick?" he asked. "No. How did you know I was here?" "Your janitress came to my house to tell me you were in bed."
"Vries verified this rapid transformation first in a plant named OEnotheria Lamarckiana, which, all of a sudden, with no influence from the environment, with nothing to justify it, at times changes and metamorphosizes itself into a different plant." "But this transformation may be due to a disease," said Alzugaray.
Nevertheless, Caesar insisted that the crisis was imminent, and that it was the precise moment for him to enter politics. With this object he was taking a letter from Alarcos, the leader of the Conservatives, to Don Calixto Garcia Guerrero. "Your Don Calixto will be at San Sebastian or at some water-cure," said Alzugaray, taking his seat in the train. "It's all the same to me.
"Shut up," replied Alzugaray. The girl recited the poem, and Caesar asked Alzugaray sarcastically if those verses were by the girl's father, because they sounded to him like the verses of a notary or a judge of the Court of First Instance. Then somebody suggested that they should have supper there.
The people with whom he talked were not disposed to unbosom themselves, and he preferred not to insist, so as not to be suspected. Afterwards he went down to Cidones again and returned to Castro Duro. Caesar was still in bed. Alzugaray went into his room. "Don't you intend to get up?" he asked him. "No." "Don't you intend to eat, either?" "Neither." "Are you sick?" "No."
Caesar impatiently awaited Senor Peribanez's reply, so that he might return to Madrid. He was fed up with Don Calixto's conversation and his wife's, and with the familiarity they had established with him. Alzugaray, on the other hand, was entertained and content. Amparito's father showed a great liking for him and took him everywhere in his automobile.
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