“You are going to play a dangerous game.”
“It will be no less dangerous for you than for me.”
“You are playing for your head.”
“Pshaw! We will play for it and win it.”
The friar bowed, and smiling in a forced manner, left the house.
XIX. THE FIGHT FOR THE ELECTION
The Conservatives at Castro Duro were ready to commit the greatest outrages and the most arbitrary acts so as to win by any methods.
It was known that a committee consisting of García Padilla, Father Martín Lafuerza, and two Conservative councillors had gone to the Minister of the Interior to beg that Cæsar’s victory might be prevented by whatsoever means.
“It is necessary that Don Cæsar Moncada should not be elected for the District,” said Father Martín. “If he is, the town will remain subjected to a revolutionary dictatorship. All the Conservative classes, the merchants, the religious communities, fervently hope that Moncada will not be made Deputy.”