"Both of us being placed in diametrically opposite positions, chance has thought proper to bring us together to-day: if we now part, we shall take with us no feeling of hatred through our meeting, because neither you nor I have had cause to complain of each other, and probably we shall never see each other again."
"Still, it is plain that when my soldiers found you, you were expecting somebody on this road."
"What makes you suppose that?"
"Hang it! you told me you were hunters; I do not see any game you could hunt along this road."
The prisoner began laughing.
"Who knows?" he replied, with a stress on his words, "Perhaps it was more precious game than you may fancy, and of which you would like to have your share."
The monk gave a slight start, and opened his eyes as awaking.
"What?" he said, addressing the Captain, and stifling a yawn. "You are not asleep, Don Juan?"
"Not yet," the latter answered. "I am questioning the two men my vanguard arrested some hours ago."
"Ah!" the monk remarked with a disdainful glance at the strangers, "these poor devils do not appear to me very alarming."