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him that position? Who can say? Genius? He has genius. Heis greater with the populace than ever he was before. It is asif he had some secret power; some mysterious means to keepup his influence. He holds conferences with the Archbishop,as in those old days which you and I remember. Barrios isuseless. But for a military head they have the pious Hernandez.And they may raise the country with the new cry of thewealth for the people.’‘Will there be never any peace? Will there be no rest?’Mrs. Gould whispered. ‘I thought that we——‘‘No!’ interrupted the doctor. ‘There is no peace and norest in the development of material interests. They havetheir law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency,and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without thecontinuity and the force that can be found only in a moralprinciple. Mrs. Gould, the time approaches when all thatthe Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as heavilyupon the people as the barbarism, cruelty, and misrule ofa few years back.’‘How can you say that, Dr. Monygham?’ she cried out, asif hurt in the most sensitive place of her soul.‘I can say what is true,’ the doctor insisted, obstinately.‘It’ll weigh as heavily, and provoke resentment, bloodshed,and vengeance, because the men have grown different. Doyou think that now the mine would march upon the town tosave their Senor Administrador? Do you think that?’She pressed the backs of her entwined hands on her eyesand murmured hopelessly—‘Is it this we have worked for, then?’