and this muslin siren in the other, galloping down the hill on a
sympathetic mule amid songbirds and flowers! And here is Billy
Keogh, because he is virtuous, condemned to the unprofitable swindle
of slandering the faces of missing links on tin for an honest living!
'Tis an injustice of nature."

"Cheer up," said Goodwin. "You are a pretty poor fox to be envying
a gander. Maybe the enchanting Guilbert will take a fancy to you and
your tintypes after we impoverish her royal escort."

"She could do worse," reflected Keogh; "but she won't. 'Tis not
a tintype gallery, but a gallery of the gods that she's fitted to
adorn. She's a very wicked lady, and the president man is in luck.
But I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all the
work." And Keogh plunged for the rear of the "gallery," whistling
gaily in a spontaneous way that belied his recent sigh over the
questionable good luck of the flying president.

Goodwin turned from the main street into a much narrower one that
intersected it at a right angle.

These side streets were covered by a growth of thick, rank grass,
which was kept to a navigable shortness by the machetes of the
police. Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran
along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. At the
outskirts of the village these streets dwindled to nothing; and here
were set the palm-thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives,
and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India
islands. A few structures raised their heads above the red-tiled
roofs of the one-story houses--the bell tower of the ~Calaboza~,