"Yes," answered they with one voice.
"Whatever happens?"
"Whatever happens."
"Well, I shall not be ungrateful; the reward shall equal the services; now, if you have any observations to submit, I am ready to hear them."
The gauchos, peculiarly men of action, and not by nature great talkers, contented themselves by saying that when the moment for action arrived they would be ready—that they had nothing to say on the mode of proceeding—that that did not concern them.
"That is right," said Tyro. "Go to sleep, my braves, and leave us—the Señor, our master and I, agree on what is best to be done."
The gauchos did not require this to be repeated; they rose and proceeded to stretch themselves amongst the baggage: a few minutes later, and they were sound asleep.
Emile and the Guaraní, who alone were awake, held a long and serious conversation, and arranged a plan which it is needless to state here.