"In the most simple way. I will soon present you to each other."
"You will make me acquainted with Zeno Cabral?"
"Yes."
"That is what astonishes me. Why, he will not dare to come into our camp!"
"In case of need, at my call, he would not hesitate to do so; but it is not in this way that we must act. He will not come into our camp; we, on the contrary, will go to find him."
"We?"
"Certainly."
"Oh! Oh! Have you well reflected, my friend, on the consequences of such a proceeding? If this man should spread a net for us?"
"We have nothing of that sort to fear from him."
Gueyma lowered his head with a pensive air. For a long time the two chiefs continued thus to ride side by side without exchanging a word, absorbed each by his own thoughts. At last the young man looked up and said: