"By heavens!" said the other, "I did not think I was so good a diviner."
"Well, you have guessed a part of their occupation, but not the whole."
"The devil! You puzzle one," replied Don Guzman laughing sardonically. "I do not see too clearly what his Excellency can have to do beyond dancing, unless he amuses himself with signing warrants against the suspected. His Excellency is endowed with great capabilities for business."
"This time you have divined the whole, caballero," said the colonel, without appearing to notice the ironical tone of the speaker.
"And amongst these warrants there is, I dare say, one which concerns me more particularly."
"Precisely so," replied the colonel, with a bland smile.
"Very good. What follows is quite simple: you are charged to put it in execution."
"Just so," said the colonel coolly.
"I would have laid a hundred to one on it! And this warrants enjoins you—"
"To put you under arrest, caballero."