"Now, let us divide our parts."
"Nothing is changed, I think; I will surprise the fort, while you board the corvette."
"Agreed; where are the guides?"
"Here," the two men said, with whom Ramirez conversed when he entered the pulqueria the first time. El Alferez examined them attentively for some minutes, and then turned to the Jaguar.
"You can start, I fancy."
"How many men do you keep with you?"
"Take them all; I will only keep Ramirez and the two persons to whom he has to introduce me."
"That is true," said the sailor.
"Come, my coyotes," El Alferez continued, "follow your new Chief. I place you temporarily under the orders of the Jaguar, to whom I surrender all my claims upon you."
The men bowed, but made no reply.