"I have warned you," said Alfonso, in a strangled voice.
"And I have warned you," replied the keeper.
"Recollect that I have already killed one man."
"Bah!" replied Pedro, the keeper, drawing a pistol. "If you were so much as to raise your little finger toward me, I would stretch you a corpse on this floor."
"What should I be doing to let you?" asked Pedro, with a sneer which was peculiarly aggravating.
Alfonso breathed heavily.
"Do you mean to report me?" he demanded.
"Certainly I do, and you know very well what that means."
"Yes—I—do," answered the convict—speaking with difficulty.
"Shall I tell you?"