"But I repeat that your captain never heard mine."
"What matter if he hasn't? A name is always a name."
"Ah!" the stranger suddenly said, "I believe I have found a way to settle everything."
"Let's hear it: if it is good I will avail myself of it."
"'Tis excellent."
"All the better. I am listening."
"Go and tell the captain that the man who fired a pistol at him a month back at the Rancho of Guaymas is here, and wishes to speak to him."
"Eh?"
"Do you not understand me?"
"Oh, perfectly."