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Updated: August 28, 2024
Come, cheer up, Monsieur Taltavull; you aren't half enjoying yourself." "It is terrible this uncertainty," groaned the old man, the words being jolted out of him in gasps. "We do not know whether or no the wretches are in that train after all. We may even be racing away from them. Señores, you have been too precipitate." "Precipitate?" rejoined Haigh; "not a bit of it, amigo.
"Faith, I grant that same's true." "This loss means more to me than it does to you." "You are making it do so, certainly. But there, for God's sake, don't let's be asses enough to quarrel. Here, smoke." We all three lit cigarettes, and there was a silence for some minutes. Then Haigh broke out again, "Phe ew!" he whistled. "Have they gone posting to Soller after all?" "Eh?" said Taltavull.
Taltavull held that it was a genuine product of the island, though he was bound to admit that no remains of manufacturing potteries had as yet been discovered.
"Which fine metaphor boiled down signifies that you want to bring the man into partnership because he is a professional conspirator." "Put it that way if you like. Also you must not forget that you and I are at present dead-locked." "So that we have all to gain and nothing to lose. Precisely; old man, you've put it in a nutshell. The only other thing is, do you think Taltavull would play fair?"
"Five fifty-five in the afternoon," returned Taltavull gloomily. "Surely there's a train out of La Puebla before. The service can't be as fragmentary as all that." "Yes, another train leaves there at 2.45 for the San Bordils Junction; but it doesn't go through, and there is no connection on." "And how far is it by road to Palma?"
Send those beasts along, Pedrillo. Make 'em burn the ground." The lust for destruction, when once thoroughly lit in an able-bodied man, is not an easy flame to extinguish, and in consequence we went ruthlessly on with the dismantlement of the carriage, till even Taltavull, hardened destructor as he was himself, was fain to call upon us to leave off.
Let's go and make merry with the drummers." However, true to his word, and not a little to our surprise, Taltavull turned up about four the next afternoon and told us that he had been successful. There was a little subcutaneous pride to be noted as he made the announcement, for, after all, he was a human man as well as an anarchist, and had done a thing which we deemed very nigh impossible.
"We must risk that. It isn't a matter one could make out a paper agreement over, and sign our names to across a charter-party stamp. But I think, from what I saw of him, Taltavull is not the man to do an unfair thing to any one who treats him well. But, as I say, we must be prepared to risk it." "All right then," said Haigh; "so far as I'm concerned, I'm quite willing. You do the recruiting.
There's an old adage about thieves quarrelling, and we three should do best by not falling out with one another. Come, let's try back a bit. What the devil is this eighteen-cornered insult you're so furious about?" Taltavull thrust the letter into his hand, and stalked away to the window muttering in his beard. I looked over Haigh's shoulder, and read with him:
Taltavull rushed into the waiting-room, and tried to storm the barricade, offering threats, money, anything to have the train stopped, if only for three seconds, whilst he got on board.
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