"Those who are with you have killed five hundred of my men during the night. Oh! the incarnate demons! Yes, I ought to have suspected it; you alone were able to withstand an army for a whole night in a dismantled ruin. Save them," he added—"no, it is impossible."
"In that case, good-bye," Leon said, as he prepared to turn away.
"Where are you going, brother?"
"To die with them, since their death is resolved."
"Oh, you will not do that?"
"Why should I not do it? Why have you forgotten, that you were for a long time their leader, but will now sacrifice them to your blind fury?"
"Oh! I cannot let the Soto-Mayor family escape thus!"
"That family left me at the Parumo of San Bautista, after the Indian bullets had killed the general's wife."
"Are you speaking the truth?"
"I have only two ladies with me."