"It is very kind of you. You will breakfast with me, of course?"
"I came to invite myself."
"That is right," said the colonel, striking a bell.
A domestic entered.
"This caballero will do me the honour to breakfast with me."
The servant, a well-trained soldier, disappeared.
"By the bye, Don Fernando, I have a heap of papers here addressed to you."
"Thank Heaven! I was afraid they had been delayed. I want them particularly, for certain reasons."
"So much the better, then," said the colonel, producing the papers, which Don Fernando put into his pocket.
"Breakfast is ready," said the same man who had appeared an instant before.