"Come, Master Crevel, will you have finished soon or not? Of whom and of what are you speaking? Make haste and explain yourself."
"Why of the little Señorita up there—by the gods!"
"A woman in my room! Tell me, Wilhelm, do you know what Crevel is talking about?"
"Well, captain, you must know that—well—since—"
"Ah! I really believe that it would have been wiser to go upstairs and look for myself, you scoundrels."
And he prepared to ascend the stairs.
"Ah!" he said turning round and addressing Wilhelm; "do not stir from here without my orders, my boy, for I may want you."
"That is sufficient, captain."
Leon went out of the room, and, as he did so, heard the landlord, who was fastening his door, say to the German—
"The captain is a lucky fellow."