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men called away to attend the urgent necessities of politicalrevolutions. The practical, mercantile soul of Senor Hirschrebelled against all that foolishness, while he was taking arespectful but disconcerted leave of the might and majestyof the San Tome mine in the person of Charles Gould. Hecould not restrain a heart-broken murmur, wrung out ofhis very aching heart, as it were.‘It is a great, great foolishness, Don Carlos, all this. Theprice of hides in Hamburg is gone up—up. Of course the RibieristGovernment will do away with all that—when it getsestablished firmly. Meantime—‘He sighed.‘Yes, meantime,’ repeated Charles Gould, inscrutably.The other shrugged his shoulders. But he was not readyto go yet. There was a little matter he would like to mentionvery much if permitted. It appeared he had some goodfriends in Hamburg (he murmured the name of the firm)who were very anxious to do business, in dynamite, he explained.A contract for dynamite with the San Tome mine,and then, perhaps, later on, other mines, which were sureto—The little man from Esmeralda was ready to enlarge,but Charles interrupted him. It seemed as though the patienceof the Senor Administrador was giving way at last.‘Senor Hirsch,’ he said, ‘I have enough dynamite storedup at the mountain to send it down crashing into the valley’—hisvoice rose a little—‘to send half Sulaco into the airif I liked.’Charles Gould smiled at the round, startled eyes of thedealer in hides, who was murmuring hastily, ‘Just so. Just