"How can that be? Were you not seeking me?"
"God forbid!" the senator cried.
"Look there, now; why, then, where were you going alone thus?"
"I was going to my own home."
The general and Antinahuel exchanged a few words.
"Come with us, Don Ramón," the general rejoined, "the Toqui wishes to have some conversation."
"With pleasure," said Don Ramón; and cursing his evil star he followed the two men into the toldo.
The warriors who had brought the senator remained without, to execute the orders they might receive.
"You said," the general continued, as soon as they were in the toldo, "that you were going home at Casa Azul."
"Yes, general."