On the threshold he paused to wheeze: "Very well,
then. Go! I'm done with both of you. I would have lent you a hand
with this rascal Cueto, but now he will fall heir to your entire
property. Well, it is a time for bandits! I--I--" Unable to think
of a parting speech sufficiently bitter to match his
disappointment, Don Mario plunged out into the sunlight, muttering
and stammering to himself.
Within an hour the twins were on their way up the Yumuri, toward
the home of Asensio and Evangelina; for it was thither that they
naturally turned. It was well that they had made haste, for as
they rode down into the valley, up the other side of the hill from
Matanzas came a squad of the Guardia Civil, and at its head rode
Pancho Cueto.
V
A CRY FROM THE WILDERNESS
New York seemed almost like a foreign city to Johnnie O'Reilly
when he stepped out into it on the morning after his arrival. For
one thing it was bleak and cold: the north wind, hailing direct
from Baffin's Bay, had teeth, and it bit so cruelly that he was
glad when he found shelter in the building which housed the
offices of the Carter Importing Company. The tropics had thinned
O'Reilly's blood, for the Cuban winds bear a kiss instead of a
sting; therefore he paused in the lower hallway, jostled by the
morning crowds, and tried to warm himself.
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