"We have been connected for thirty years."
"I know it: but where is he, that I do not see him?"
"He went, about two hours back, to the camp of the Cuadrilla to bring help."
"He thinks of everything."
"I remained here to watch over and take care of you during his absence; but he will soon return."
"Do you believe that I shall be long helpless?"
"No; your wounds are not serious. What floors you at this moment is the moral shock you received, and chiefly the blood you lost when you fell in a fainting state into the Rubio."
"Then that river—"
"Is the Rubio."
"I am, then, on the spot where the struggle ended?"