“All?” echoed Hal, now sitting up. “It seems to me, my friend, that you make a very modest statement of your noble action.”
“Senor, to-day you trusted me. In return I could not do less.”
“And it was you, I am sure, who went to the British consulate——”
“I was there, senor.”
“And it was you who lodged the information that resulted in my release at the Prefatura.”
“It was I, senor, as you have guessed,” Ramirez quietly replied.
“You have been my good angel to-day,” cried Maynard, gratefully.
“I could not do less, senor, after a stranger had trusted me.”
“And it was you who warned me to-night that I was being followed.”
“Wrong this time, senor. It was a friend of mine.”