"This conversation is now useless; allow me to return to my people."
"Go, then; I have no more, indeed, to say to you. Remember, that it is the obstinacy of your master that calls down upon his head the misfortunes that will fall upon it."
"I thank you for the information; chief, I will profit by it, be sure of that," said Diogo, with irony.
The Guaycurus smiled without answering, and, burying his spurs in the flanks of his horse, disappeared almost instantly in the high grass.
The captain rejoined the marquis, who was waiting with impatience the result of the interview.
"Well," cried he, as soon as Don Diogo had made his appearance.
"What I foresaw has happened," answered the Indian.
"Which is—"
"That these Guaycurus will not, under any pretext, allow us to place our foot on their territory."
"Indeed!"