"That is settled. Ah! the general will be highly delighted to learn all this."
"Now let us come to our second matter—that which concerns us two alone; what have you done since I saw you last?"
"Not much; I have not the means at this moment to enter into the difficult researches with which you commissioned me."
"And yet the reward is a fine one."
"I do not say it is not," the guerillero replied absently.
Don Antonio gave him a piercing glance.
"Do you doubt my word?" he said haughtily.
"It is my principle never to doubt anything, señor," the colonel answered.
"The sum is a large one."
"That is the very thing that terrifies me."