"Then you meditate a robbery?"
"A robbery!" he exclaimed, blushing with indignation, but at once recovering himself, he added, "It is true, you are bound to suppose that."
"What other name can be given to so infamous a deed?" the hunter exclaimed, violently.
The Jaguar raised his head quickly, as if he intended to answer, but his lips remained dumb.
Tranquil looked at him for a moment with mingled pity and tenderness, and then turned to Loyal Heart.
"Come, my friend," he said, "we have remained here only too long."
"Stay!" the young man exclaimed, "Do not condemn me thus; I repeat to you that you are ignorant of the motives through which I act."
"Whatever these motives may be, they cannot be honourable; I see no other than pillage and murder."
"Oh!" the young man exclaimed, as he buried his face sorrowfully in his hands.
"Let us go," Tranquil repeated.