"Do you know that Alvaro Luna has a fight on hand this evening?" said some one when they were beginning to tire of "Just tell me," and "Let me tell you," from Cobo and Ramon.
"So I heard," replied Pepe Castro, closing his eyes ecstatically as he sucked at his cigar. "In the Escalona's gardens, isn't it?"
"I think so."
"Swords?"
"Swords."
"Another honourable scar!" said Leon Guzman from where he was sitting.
"Rapiers."
"Oh! that is quite another thing."
And the whole party became interested in the duel.
"Alvaro has but little practice. The Colonel will have the best of it; he is the better man, and he fights with great energy."