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daylight? He began to think that this, after all, was the realdanger. He was afraid that the darkness, which was his protection,would, in the end, cause his undoing.Sotillo, as Nostromo had surmised, was in command onboard the transport. The events of the last forty-eight hoursin Sulaco were not known to him; neither was he aware thatthe telegraphist in Esmeralda had managed to warn his colleaguein Sulaco. Like a good many officers of the troopsgarrisoning the province, Sotillo had been influenced in hisadoption of the Ribierist cause by the belief that it had theenormous wealth of the Gould Concession on its side. Hehad been one of the frequenters of the Casa Gould, where hehad aired his Blanco convictions and his ardour for reformbefore Don Jose Avellanos, casting frank, honest glances towardsMrs. Gould and Antonia the while. He was knownto belong to a good family persecuted and impoverishedduring the tyranny of Guzman Bento. The opinions he expressedappeared eminently natural and proper in a man ofhis parentage and antecedents. And he was not a deceiver; itwas perfectly natural for him to express elevated sentimentswhile his whole faculties were taken up with what seemedthen a solid and practical notion—the notion that the husbandof Antonia Avellanos would be, naturally, the intimatefriend of the Gould Concession. He even pointed this out toAnzani once, when negotiating the sixth or seventh smallloan in the gloomy, damp apartment with enormous ironbars, behind the principal shop in the whole row under theArcades. He hinted to the universal shopkeeper at the excellentterms he was on with the emancipated senorita, who