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"Sick," he whispered; "dying. El pano, el pano;" and his next movement was telling though grotesque, for he opened his mouth and made signs of eating, before pointing downward at the boy.
"No, no, no!" cried Pen, laughing and shaking his head. The girl looked a little annoyed, and smiled again, and pointed to the provisions she had brought. "Queso, pano," she said. "Las uvas;" and she caught up one of the bunches of grapes, picked off a few, and placed them in Punch's hand. Then turning quickly to the door, she stopped to look round.
The boy obeyed, and as the two men looked at them doubtingly Pen took the haversack, held it out, thrust his hand within two or three times, and shook his head before pointing to his lips and making signs as if he wanted to eat. "El pano, agua," he said.
She shrank quickly, and a look of half-dread, half-annoyance came upon her countenance; but, as Pen drew back, her face smoothed and she nodded quickly, pointed in the direction of the big fall, made two or three significant gestures that might or might not have meant, "I'll soon be back," and then whispered, "El pano, el pano;" and ran off over the rugged stones as swiftly as one of her own mountain goats.
And he pointed to the dimly seen boy and then to his own mouth. "Si, el pano!" cried the girl, ceasing her faint struggle. "Si, si!" cried Pen again, and he joined his hands together for a moment before slowly beckoning their visitor to follow him into the cottage.
"Ha!" said Pen softly, as he sighed with satisfaction, "el pano means bread, plain enough, and she must have understood that. Gone," he added, as the girl disappeared. "Then there must be another cottage somewhere in that direction, and I am going to hope that she will come back soon with something to eat. Who could have thought it?
I studied for a time in the Institute of Pamplona with Don Gregorio Pano, who taught us mathematics; and this old gentleman, who looked like the Commander in Don Juan Tenorio, with his frozen face and his white beard, remarked to me in his sepulchral voice: "You are not going to be an engineer like your father. You will never amount to anything."
And he gesticulated towards the hut as he pointed through the door at the dimly seen bed, while the girl held back at arm's-length, gazing at him wildly, until a happy thought struck him, for he recalled the words that he had more than once heard used by the villagers while he and his fellows were foraging. "El pano," he cried; "el pano bread, bread!"
He was habited in a pelisse, or dolman, of dark blue, richly laced with gold, and almost concealed under a large white kerchief, embroidered with sky-blue silk, and known in Mexico as pano de sol.
These valises contained provisions and the menage necessary for a halt. On seeing Cuchillo and Baraja, the foremost of the two cavaliers halted, and the troop followed his example. "'Tis the Senor Don Estevan," said Baraja, in a subdued voice. "This is the man, senor," he continued, presenting Cuchillo to the cavalier with the pano de sol.
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