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laco now. Go you with God.’ What would you? We went on.There was no resisting him. He might have been Hernandezhimself; though my servant, who has been many timesto Sulaco by sea, assured me that he had recognized himvery well for the Capataz of the Steamship Company’s Cargadores.Later, that same evening, I saw that very man at thecorner of the Plaza talking to a girl, a Morenita, who stoodby the stirrup with her hand on the grey horse’s mane.’‘I assure you, Senor Hirsch,’ murmured Charles Gould,‘that you ran no risk on this occasion.’‘That may be, senor, though I tremble yet. A most fierceman—to look at. And what does it mean? A person employedby the Steamship Company talking with salteadores—noless, senor; the other horsemen were salteadores—in alonely place, and behaving like a robber himself! A cigar isnothing, but what was there to prevent him asking me formy purse?’‘No, no, Senor Hirsch,’ Charles Gould murmured, lettinghis glance stray away a little vacantly from the round face,with its hooked beak upturned towards him in an almostchildlike appeal. ‘If it was the Capataz de Cargadores youmet—and there is no doubt, is there? —you were perfectlysafe.’‘Thank you. You are very good. A very fierce-lookingman, Don Carlos. He asked me for a cigar in a most familiarmanner. What would have happened if I had not hada cigar? I shudder yet. What business had he to be talkingwith robbers in a lonely place?’But Charles Gould, openly preoccupied now, gave not a