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This young man has afforded me the opportunity, and, in a short time, I will have settled all of my accounts with the friar. It's a pity that this young man, some day or other ... but call the Alcalde to me." The latter presented himself at once. The Alcalde understood the reprimand and bowed to conceal his confusion. "Have the alferez, who is in command here, informed to the same effect.

He had scarcely entered the gate of the city, with tottering steps, when he was accosted by an old friend who had not seen him for the last six months, and who approached the invalid, making signs of the cross as if he had seen a ghost. "What; is all this?" he cried; "do I, indeed, behold the Señor Alferez Campuzano? Is it possible that I really see you in this country?

"There we'll talk about those boys who disappeared." "Could I be the cause?" murmured the young man, staring without seeing the Captain-General, whom he was following mechanically. Doña Consolacion Why were the windows closed in the house of the alferez? Where were the masculine features and the flannel camisa of the Medusa or Muse of the Civil Guard while the procession was passing?

At nearly nine o'clock, the curate, pale and with eyebrows knit, arrived. "Well, you haven't made any one wait!" said the alferez sarcastically to the friar. "I would have preferred not to be present," replied Father Salví, in a low voice, without taking notice of the bitter tone.... "I am very nervous."

Capitan Tiago, the alferez, and some other wealthy personages came in the gilded cluster of maidens displaying their silken parasols. Padre Salvi followed, silent and thoughtful as ever. "Count upon my support always in any worthy enterprise," the alcalde was saying to Ibarra. "I will give you whatever appropriation you need or else see that it is furnished by others."

The house shook under the kicks and curses of the alferez. "Don't come in, don't come in!" called the sour voice inside. "If you show yourself, I'll shoot you." By degrees he appeared to become calm and contented himself with walking up and down the room like a wild beast in its cage.

And to exasperate him the more, she spat upon him. The alferez went blind from rage and with a roar attempted to throw himself upon her, but she, with astonishing quickness, hit him across the face with the whip and ran hurriedly into an inner room, shutting and bolting the door violently behind her.

"This is the first time that I've ever seen him," replied Tarsilo with a look of pity at the other. The alferez struck him with his fist and kicked him. "Tie him to the bench!" Without taking off the handcuffs, which were covered with blood, they tied him to a wooden bench.

At our festivals everybody is well received, and you yourself, if you had come, would have been given a seat at the table, the same as the alferez who was here among us two hours ago." Saying this, Ibarra turned his back to him. The sergeant bit his mustache and ordered his men to search everywhere among the trees for the pilot, whose description he had on a piece of paper.

"You are not going to tell who were your accomplices?" said the alferez in a threatening manner and brandishing a whip. A scornful smile curled the lips of the culprit. The alferez conferred for some minutes with the curate in a low voice. Then turning to the soldiers, he ordered: "Take him to where the dead bodies are!"