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weary discouragement sealed his lips for a time.‘You are a just man,’ urged the emissary of Hernandez.‘Look at those people who made my compadre a generaland have turned us all into soldiers. Look at those oligarchsfleeing for life, with only the clothes on their backs. Mycompadre does not think of that, but our followers may bewondering greatly, and I would speak for them to you. Listen,senor! For many months now the Campo has been ourown. We need ask no man for anything; but soldiers musthave their pay to live honestly when the wars are over. Itis believed that your soul is so just that a prayer from youwould cure the sickness of every beast, like the orison ofthe upright judge. Let me have some words from your lipsthat would act like a charm upon the doubts of our partida,where all are men.’‘Do you hear what he says?’ Charles Gould said in Englishto Antonia.‘Forgive us our misery!’ she exclaimed, hurriedly. ‘It isyour character that is the inexhaustible treasure which maysave us all yet; your character, Carlos, not your wealth. Ientreat you to give this man your word that you will acceptany arrangement my uncle may make with their chief. Oneword. He will want no more.’On the site of the roadside hut there remained nothingbut an enormous heap of embers, throwing afar a darkeningred glow, in which Antonia’s face appeared deeplyflushed with excitement. Charles Gould, with only a shorthesitation, pronounced the required pledge. He was like aman who had ventured on a precipitous path with no room