"So I takes a knife and cuts it out myself, and seeing there was room for the bullet, I shoved the diamond into the hole and let the skin grow over it and there it is now."
"In your body?"
"In my living body," replied Alfonso, "and no word of a lie about it."
"Didn't it hurt?"
"I'll bet you it did. I suffered the tortures of the damned for weeks, and it hurts now if I strain myself or lie on that side."
Jack was overpowered with astonishment.
"You've got grit in you," he remarked.
"Didn't I tell you I killed my man? Any one who's got pluck enough to slay his enemy and risk the gallows can do anything," answered Alfonso.
"What do you want me to do?" inquired Jack.
"If I die, cut it out."