"What Ingleses?"
"Those who have landed at Guaymas."
"Ah! Very good."
"You will tell us, will you not, general?" they all exclaimed at once.
"If it is agreeable to you."
"Oh! Greatly so."
"In the first place, they are not English."
"They must be, as they are foreigners."
The general smiled at this simple observation; but mentally recognising the impossibility of destroying an opinion so deeply rooted, he turned the question.
"These men are two hundred and odd in number."