A few seconds passed and another whistle was heard in the same direction, but nearer.
"It is a coral snake, I tell you," Leon repeated.
"Silence!" said Diego, seizing his arm.
And taking from his lips the cigarette which he was smoking, the half-breed shook off the ash, and threw it in the air, where it described a luminous parabola; then he turned to his friend.
"Come with me," he said to him.
"Where to?"
"There," Diego replied, pointing to the wood, in front of which the camp was pitched.
"What to do?"
"You will learn."
"But they?" Leon said, hesitatingly, as he pointed to the tent in which the Soto-Mayor family was assembled.