"Just as I said you were."
"But I am ignorant of its contents."
"Caramba! that is very likely."
"Well, to General Fuentes, I suppose. But if I give you up the paper shall I be free?" he asked.
"Hum! the position is changed. If you had given it up with a good grace I could have guaranteed your freedom."
"Still!"
"Come, give it to me."
"Here it is," said the senator, drawing it from his bosom.
The general took the paper, ran his eye rapidly over it, then drawing Antinahuel to the other extremity of the toldo, they talked together for some minutes in a low voice. At length the general turned towards the senator.
"Unhappy fool!" he said, sternly; "Is it thus you betray me, after the proofs of friendship I have given you?"