"What I would ask of you is worse than killing a man."
"I do not understand you."
"I wish—you understand me clearly, my dear Pedro?—I wish that on the road we should escape—"
"If it is only that, it is easy."
"Perhaps so! But that is not all."
"I am listening."
"When we escape, you must carry off and take with us the girl to whom you entrusted me last evening."
"What the deuce would you do with her?" the pirate exclaimed, astonished at this singular proposition, which he was far from expecting.
"That is my business," the Gazelle answered rudely.
"Of course, still it seems to me—"