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circles of the Republic had come to consider the OccidentalProvince as the promised land of safety, especially if a manmanaged to get on good terms with the administration ofthe mine. ‘Charles Gould; excellent fellow! Absolutely necessaryto make sure of him before taking a single step. Getan introduction to him from Moraga if you can—the agentof the King of Sulaco, don’t you know.’No wonder, then, that Sir John, coming from Europeto smooth the path for his railway, had been meeting thename (and even the nickname) of Charles Gould at everyturn in Costaguana. The agent of the San Tome Administrationin Sta. Marta (a polished, well-informed gentleman,Sir John thought him) had certainly helped so greatly inbringing about the presidential tour that he began to thinkthat there was something in the faint whispers hinting atthe immense occult influence of the Gould Concession.What was currently whispered was this—that the San TomeAdministration had, in part, at least, financed the last revolution,which had brought into a five-year dictatorship DonVincente Ribiera, a man of culture and of unblemishedcharacter, invested with a mandate of reform by the best elementsof the State. Serious, well-informed men seemed tobelieve the fact, to hope for better things, for the establishmentof legality, of good faith and order in public life. Somuch the better, then, thought Sir John. He worked alwayson a great scale; there was a loan to the State, and a projectfor systematic colonization of the Occidental Province,involved in one vast scheme with the construction of theNational Central Railway. Good faith, order, honesty, peace,