"Why so?"
"Are you aware what your new allies did last night?"
"How should I? Since I do not know where they are, and have not even received the official report of the treaty being made."
"Well, I will tell you; they attacked the Venta del Potrero, and burned it to the ground."
The Jaguar's savage eye emitted a flash of fury; he bounded to his feet, and convulsively seized his rifle.
"By Heaven!" he shouted, loudly, "Have they done that?"
"They did; and it is supposed at your instigation."
The Jaguar shrugged his shoulders disdainfully.
"For what object?" he said. "But Doña Carmela, what has become of her?"
"She is saved, thank Heaven!"