State--state! They had cried out upon the Genoese's keeping it--but Don Nicholas de Ovando kept more.

While we waited in the antechamber I saw, out of window and the tail of my eye, files of soldiery go by.

Ovando would not have riot and disturbance if twenty Admirals hung in the offing! He kept us waiting.

He would be cool and distant and impregnable behind the royal word.

Juan Lepe saw plainly that that lavish and magnanimous person aboard the _Consolacion_ would not meet here his twin.