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The blows were redoubled, but he remained unmoved. "Whip him until he bursts or talks!" cried the exasperated alferez. "Talk now," the directorcillo advised him. "They'll kill you anyhow." They led him back into the hall where the other prisoner, with chattering teeth and quaking limbs, was calling upon the saints. "Do you know this fellow?" asked Padre Salvi.
"Look how he turned his tongue back as if trying to swallow it." The other prisoner, who had watched this scene, sweating and trembling, now stared like a lunatic in all directions. The alferez ordered the directorcillo to question him. "Sir, sir," he groaned, "I'll tell everything you want me to." "Good! Let's see, what's your name?" "Andong, sir!"
You know whether the telegrapher and the directorcillo ought to be informed; one talks with wires and the other knows Spanish and works only with a pen." All were appalled. "May they force me to wear shoes and in all my life to drink nothing but that vile stuff they call beer, if I ever let myself be called pelbistero!" swore the countryman, clenching his fists.
That's the way to the dead man's house." "The fellow's still asleep," remarked the directorcillo facetiously. "Better pour some water over him." Amid the laughter of the bystanders the rustic left the place where he had played such a ridiculous part and went toward the church. In the sacristy he asked for the senior sacristan. "He's still asleep," was the rough answer.
Reconstructing in his imagination the scene that had taken place there and seeing so many papers that might be of a compromising nature, he decided to gather them up, throw them from the window, and bury them. But, on glancing toward the street, he saw two guards approaching, their bayonets and caps gleaming in the moonlight. With them was the directorcillo.
The alferez ordered the directorcillo to question him. "Señor, Señor," he groaned. "I will tell you all that you wish." "Good. Let us see! What is your name?" "Andong, Señor!" "Bernardo ... Leonardo ... Ricardo ... Educardo. Gerardo ... or what?" "Andong, Señor," repeated the imbecile. "Call it Bernardo or whatever you please," said the alferez, decided not to bother more about it.
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