"Hang it! Because I was assured that you were dead."
"I?"
"Yes, you."
"Who the deuce could have told you that nonsense?"
"It is not nonsense. Fray Antonio assured me that he leapt his horse over your body."
The Jaguar reflected for a moment.
"Well," he answered, "he told you the truth."
"What?" the American exclaimed as he gave a start of terror, "Are you dead?"
"Oh, oh! Make your mind easy," the young man answered with a laugh; "I am as good a living man as yourself."
"Are you quite sure of it?" the superstitious American said dubiously.