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‘Antonia will kill herself!’ she cried out.This cry fell into the silence of the room with strangelylittle effect. Only the doctor, crumbling up a piece of bread,with his head inclined on one side, raised his face, and thefew long hairs sticking out of his shaggy eyebrows stirred ina slight frown. Dr. Monygham thought quite sincerely thatDecoud was a singularly unworthy object for any woman’saffection. Then he lowered his head again, with a curl of hislip, and his heart full of tender admiration for Mrs. Gould.‘She thinks of that girl,’ he said to himself; ‘she thinksof the Viola children; she thinks of me; of the wounded; ofthe miners; she always thinks of everybody who is poor andmiserable! But what will she do if Charles gets the worst ofit in this infernal scrimmage those confounded Avellanoshave drawn him into? No one seems to be thinking of her.’Charles Gould, staring at the wall, pursued his reflectionssubtly.‘I shall write to Holroyd that the San Tome mine is bigenough to take in hand the making of a new State. It’llplease him. It’ll reconcile him to the risk.’But was Barrios really available? Perhaps. But he wasinaccessible. To send off a boat to Cayta was no longer possible,since Sotillo was master of the harbour, and had asteamer at his disposal. And now, with all the democratsin the province up, and every Campo township in a state ofdisturbance, where could he find a man who would makehis way successfully overland to Cayta with a message, aten days’ ride at least; a man of courage and resolution, whowould avoid arrest or murder, and if arrested would faith-