Lord Yelverton would watch the quiet native women in long skirts moving on the roofs as they hung out their washing to dry or spreading it on hot stones.
There was invariably an old Priest who he could converse with in Spanish or sometimes the Manager of a hacienda had come into the village in search of companionship after a hard day’s work in the fields.
Everyone he talked to was intensely curious as to where he was going and, when he told them it was to meet Ajax Audenshaw, they nodded their heads as if it was what they expected since there could be no other reason for anyone to want to go to Acapulco.
It was through these Priests that Lord Yelverton gathered that Audenshaw’s way of living was a scandal, but what he had not expected was to learn that he was English.
He had originally
