native waltzes that came throbbing through the trees and
beating softly above the rustling skirts and clinking spurs of
the senoritas and officers sweeping by in two opposite circles
around the edges of the tessellated pavements. Above the
palms around the square arose the dim, white facade of the
Cathedral, with the bronze statue of Anduella the liberator of
Olancho, who answered with his upraised arm and cocked hat the
cheers of an imaginary populace."

Twenty years had gone by since Dick had received the
impression that wrote those lines, and now sometimes after
dinner half a long cigar would burn out as he mused over the
picture and the dreams that had gone between. From one long
silence he said: "I think I'll come back here this winter and
bring Mrs. Davis with me--stay a couple of months." What a
fine compliment to a wife to have the thought of her and that
plan emerge from that deep and romantic background!

And again, later, apropos of nothing but what one guessed from
the dreamer's expressive face, he said: "I had remembered it
as so much larger"--indicating the square--"until I saw it
again when we came down with the army." A tolerant smile--he
might have explained that it is always so on revisiting scenes
that have impressed us deeply in our earlier days, but he let
the smile do that. One of his charms as companion was that
restful ability not to talk if you knew it, too.

The picture people began their film with a showing of the
"mountains which jutted out into the ocean and suggested
roughly the five knuckles of a giant's hand clenched and lying