“Caramba!” he exclaimed. “Where do you come from?”
The boys looked at each other in some confusion, not knowing just what to say. But once more Billie was equal to the occasion and he replied with his most innocent smile, “We were captured!”
“So I see,” laughed the captain. “But what were you doing?”
“We wanted to see the battle,” replied Billie. “We never had seen one and we wanted to know what it was like.”
The captain smiled grimly and was about to say something more, when the general demanded sternly:
“Who are these boys, Captain?”
“They are the boys who aided in capturing Don Rafael’s gang,” was the prompt reply.
“What! The boys who rescued my son from that cutthroat!”
“The same, General!”
If the boys had been surprised at recognizing the captain, they were much more surprised at what followed.