“Name the agent or agents of Don Carlos with whom you have held correspondence?”
“None. I never knew any.”
“By whose hands were the large sums of money in your possession intrusted to you?”
“I found them.”
“How, and where?”
“In a hole.”
The General's face grew purple; and more than once I could see the struggle it cost him to repress his bursting indignation. And in the mutterings he let fall to his secretary, it was easy to mark that his comments on the evidence were not too favorable.
“Were you acquainted with Brigadier Hermose Gonzillos?”
“No.”
“Nor with his brother, the Canon Gonzillos?”