"To Rio Claro, to find the lieutenant."
"What did he say to you?"
"He told me that he wished to deliver you, and gave me the meeting for last night at ten o'clock."
"He came here? What next?"
"Next, captain," the German said, twisting his hat between his fingers. "Well, it was—"
"Speak the truth; I insist on it."
"Well, the whole band was assembled."
"And what did you do?"
"Lieutenant Diego told us that you loved a novice in the convent of the Purísima Concepción, that he had sworn to make her yours, and we must carry her off."
"And then?"