[Gutenberg 43838] • The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure

While Dona Rosario effected her escape by the assistance of Curumilla, as recorded in the "Adventurers," Don Tadeo was not long in regaining his senses. On opening his eyes he cast a bewildered look around him, but as soon as memory threw light into his brain, he let his head sink into his hands, and gave a free vent to his grief. Don Tadeo wept! Don Tadeo, the King of Darkness, who a hundred times had smilingly looked death in the face-who had had such a miraculous escape-the man whose iron will had so rapidly crushed everything that opposed the execution of his projects; who by a word, a gesture, a frown, governed thousands of men submissive to his caprices, wept. But Don Tadeo was not a man whom grief, however intense, could depress for a length of time.