pplied the people of Gibraltar with vegetables and fruits.

It was still dark. On the coast of Spain perhaps the sky was blue and
the horizon was beginning to be colored by the rain of gold from the
glorious birth of the sun. In Gibraltar the sea fogs condensed around
the heights of the cliff, forming a sort of blackish umbrella that
covered the city, holding it in a damp penumbra, wetting the streets and
the roofs with impalpable rain. The inhabitants despaired beneath this
persistent mist, wrapped about the mountain tops like a mourning hat. It
seemed like the spirit of Old England that had flown across the seas to
watch over its conquest; a strip of London fog that had insolently taken
up its place before the warm coasts of Africa, the very home of the sun.

The morning advanced, and the glorious, unobstructed light of the bay,
yellow blue, at last succeeded in penetrating the settlement of
Gibraltar, descending into the very depths of its narrow streets,
dissolving the fog that had settled upon the trees of the Alameda and
the foliage of the pines that extended along the coast so as to mask the
fortifications at the top, drawing forth from the shadows the gray
masses of the cruisers anchored in the harbor and the black bulk of the
cannon that formed the shore batteries, filtering into the lugubrious
embrasures pierced through the cliff, cavernous mouths revealing the
mysterious defences that had been wrought with mole-like industry in the
heart of the rock.

When Aguirre went down to the entrance of the hotel, after having given
up all attempt to sleep during the commotion in the street, the
thoroughfare was already in the throes of its regular commercial
hurly-burly, a multitude of people, the inhabitants of the entire town
plus the crews and the passengers of the vessels anchored in the harbor.
Aguirre plunged into the bustle of this cosmopolitan population, walking
from the section of the waterfront to the palace of the governor. He had
become an Englishman, as he smilingly asserted. With the innate ability
of the Spaniard to adapt himself to the customs of all foreign countries
he imitated the manner of the English inhabitants of Gibraltar. He had
bought himself a pipe, wore a traveling cap, turned up trousers and a
swagger stick. The day on which he arrived, even before night-fall, they
already knew throughout Gibraltar who he was and whither he was bound.
Two days later the shopkeepers greeted him from the do