"Thank you, Don Zeno Cabral; that is all I wished to know."
And, rising with the spring of a wild beast, the young man darted down the slope of the hill, and disappeared, even before his friends could try and retain him.
"The young man has a noble heart," murmured the partisan.
"Yes," pursued Diogo, "his is a fine and noble nature; his heart will be broken."
"And will not mine be so?" significantly asked the Montonero.
"But let us talk of business."
The conversation then changed, and was entirely confined to the events in which Zeno Cabral and Diogo had been so long engaged.
Then, when the two men had decided on the measures which they thought necessary to the success of their dark projects, the captain withdrew, and Zeno Cabral remained alone with Don Sylvio Quiroga.