"I myself aided him to enter the town today."
"You?"
"Parbleu! He is a fellow countryman: and, look you, Captain, we were together when I had the honour of meeting you."
"What! That tall old man with such a haughty look and such imposing features, who sat so firmly on horseback near you?"
"The very same."
"Oh, if I had known it!" cried the captain.
"What would you have done, then?"
"I should have captured him, ¡vive Dios!"
"Then it is fortunate that you did not know him, for probably there would have been a skirmish."
The captain took no notice of this remark.