PART TWO. CASTRO DURO
I. ARRIVAL. CÆSAR IN ACTION
During the night Cæsar Moncada and Alzugaray chatted in the train. Alzugaray was praising this first Quixotic sally of his friend’s.
“We are going to cross the Rubicon, Cæsar,” he said, as he got into the train.
“We shall see.”
Many times Alzugaray had heard Cæsar explain his plans, but he had no great confidence in their realization. Nor did this particular moment seem to him opportune for beginning the campaign. Everybody believed that the Liberal Ministry was stronger than ever; people were still away for the summer; nothing was doing.
Nevertheless, Cæsar insisted that the crisis was imminent, and that it was the precise moment for him to enter politics. With this object he was taking a letter from Alarcos, the leader of the Conservatives, to Don Calixto García Guerrero.
“Your Don Calixto will be at San Sebastian or at some water-cure,” said Alzugaray, taking his seat in the train.
“It’s all the same to me. I intend to follow him until I find him,” answered Cæsar.