After all he was their own creature--that Don Vincente.

He was the embodied triumph of the best elements in the State.

These were facts, and, unless facts meant nothing, Sir John argued to himself, such a man's influence must be real, and his personal action would produce the conciliatory effect he required.

He had succeeded in arranging the trip with the help of a very clever advocate, who was known in Sta.

Marta as the agent of the Gould silver mine, the biggest thing in Sulaco, and even in the whole Republic.