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Momoy again shuddered but noticing that Sensia was watching him tried to control himself. "What a pity!" he exclaimed with an effort. "How wickedly the thief acted. Everybody would have been killed." Sensia stared at him in fright, the women crossed themselves, while Capitan Toringoy, who was afraid of politics, made a move to go away.
Simoun, the evil genius of the Captain-General, the rich trader to whose house they had gone to buy unset gems, Simoun, who had received the Orenda girls with great courtesy and had paid them fine compliments! For the very reason that the story seemed absurd it was believed. "Credo quia absurdum," said St. Augustine. "But wasn't Simoun at the fiesta last night?" asked Sensia. "Yes," said Momoy.
"But now I remember! He left the house just as we were sitting down to the dinner. He went to get his wedding-gift." "But wasn't he a friend of the General's? Wasn't he a partner of Don Timoteo's?" "Yes, he made himself a partner in order to strike the blow and kill all the Spaniards." "Aha!" cried Sensia. "Now I understand!" "What?" "You didn't want to believe Aunt Tentay.
The house was thrown into an uproar, the lieutenant of the guard came, and after enjoining secrecy upon everybody, they sent me away. But " "But but " stammered the trembling Momoy. "Nakú!" ejaculated Sensia, gazing at her fiancé and trembling sympathetically to remember that he had been at the fiesta.
Isagani listened attentively, but said nothing. "So, last night " ventured Momoy. "Last night?" echoed Sensia, between curiosity and fear. Momoy hesitated, but the face Sensia put on banished his fear. "Last night, while we were eating, there was a disturbance, the light in the General's dining-room went out. They say that some unknown person stole the lamp that was presented by Simoun."
"Yes," observed Sensia, crossing herself, "searching for the devil." Now many things were explained: Simoun's fabulous wealth and the peculiar smell in his house, the smell of sulphur. Binday, another of the daughters, a frank and lovely girl, remembered having seen blue flames in the jeweler's house one afternoon when she and her mother had gone there to buy jewels.
Momoy, the betrothed of Sensia, the eldest of the daughters a pretty and vivacious girl, rather given to joking had left the window where he was accustomed to spend his evenings in amorous discourse, and this action seemed to be very annoying to the lory whose cage hung from the eaves there, the lory endeared to the house from its ability to greet everybody in the morning with marvelous phrases of love.
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