After this confession, the ranchero bowed his head, as if he felt inwardly convinced that he had committed a great fault. There was a silence.
"Of course you told him under what name I concealed myself in this house?" don Jaime continued a moment after.
"Hang it!" Loïck said simply, "if I had not done so he would have had a difficulty in finding you, Excellency."
"That is true; he is coming then?"
"I fear it."
"It is well."
Don Jaime walked up and down the room reflecting, then approaching Loïck, who was still motionless at his place, he asked him—
"Did you come alone to Mexico?"
"López accompanied me, Excellency; but I have left him at a pulquería near the Belén gate, where he is waiting for me."
"Good, you will join him there, but say nothing to him; in an hour, not sooner, you will return here with him, perhaps I shall want you both."