"We must, señorita," the hunter replied.
"I understand," she said with a charming smile; "now that, thanks to you, we are saved, you have nothing more to do here,—is it not so?"
The two men bowed without replying.
"Grant me a favour," she said.
"Name it, señorita."
She took from her neck a little diamond cross she wore.
"Keep this, in remembrance of me."
The hunter hesitated.
"I beg you to do so," she murmured in an agitated voice.
"I accept it, señorita," the hunter said, as he placed the cross upon his breast close to his scapulary; "I shall have another talisman to add to that which my mother gave me."