"Can you reason like that in a moment when your life is in the most terrible danger? Have you ice in your veins?"
"Why should you do me an injury? If you are here to rob me——"
"I am not! I am here to make you stop from robbing me. I told you I would have my right or kill you. You laughed at me. Now you do not laugh!"
"Felipe Jalisco!"
"It is my name," was the bold confession.
Frank was amazed.
"How did you get into this house?"
"I find the way. When I told you that, night or day, asleep or awake, there would never be one moment that you would not be free from the peril of death at my hand, you laughed. You do not laugh now!"
"This isn't my time to laugh," confessed Frank. "Only fools laugh at the wrong moment."
"You were a fool when you defied me. You did not know me. You did not know the blood of the Jaliscos in me. To-night you thought yourself safe from harm. You did not dream it possible that Felipe Jalisco might strike his knife into your heart while you slept. When I told you that not one moment would you be safe, you thought it the foolish talk of a boy. Now you see."