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"Not at all," replied the muleteer coolly; "your Señoria is mistaken. It is only the first time that I have seen an Asturian caballero with a pipeclayed belt over his shoulder, and a corporal's bars upon his arm."
Pepe Velasquez is a hard hitter, and if I had worn one of their pasteboard shakos, my head would have been split in two like a ripe tomata. But as it was, the blow glanced sideways, and only shaved off a bit of the scalp, though it left me senseless, and as like dead as night be. After the troops and your señoria had marched away, and just as life was returning, some peasants found me.
"And what need your señoria know about the matter at all?" said the ready-witted Paco. "No one has seen me here; or, if any one has, nothing will be thought of it. The money was given me by the prisoner I arrange the matter with Jaime, and to-morrow morning, when the escape is discovered, who is to tax you with a share in it?"
"Here is the sum you name, and something over. Who is your man?" "Your señoria has heard of Romany Jaime, the gipsy esquilador?" The Count made a movement of surprise. "He is one of our spies; devoted to the general. You cannot think of trusting him?" "He is devoted to any body who pays him," returned Paco. "I knew him well in former days, when I went to buy mules in the mountains of Arragon.
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