"Friends?" Pedrito answered.
"Who are you?"
"Bomberos."
"Good; what do you want?"
"To speak to the Señor Capataz, Don Blas Salazar."
"Why," Blas himself exclaimed, "it is Pedrito."
"Yes, yes, Don Blas," Pedrito said, "and I recognized you at once, but duty is duty. This is my brother Pepe, at your service."
"As he has been before, Don Blas, by your leave," Pepe said, insinuatingly.
"That is true, lower the drawbridge."
The bomberos entered, and the bridge was immediately pulled up after them.