"It is not worth while, for I am working as much for myself as for you in this business."
"Be it so; but that does not render your conduct less honourable. Then you are not a flag of truce?"
"I; not a bit in the world. It was merely a title I thought it better to assume, in order to find my way to you more easily."
"No matter; so long as you remain with us you shall be treated as such, so do not feel alarmed."
"I alarmed! About what, pray? Am I not under the safeguard of your honour?"
"Thanks for the good opinion you are kind enough to have of me, and I will justify it. Now, if you think proper, we will come to the point."
"I ask nothing better," Sandoval answered with some hesitation, and looking dubiously at the American.
"This caballero is my intimate friend," the Jaguar said, understanding his meaning; "you can, speak frankly before him."
"Hum!" said Sandoval, with a toss of the head. "My mother, who was a holy woman, repeated to me frequently, that when two are enough to settle a matter, it is useless to call in a third."
"Your mother was right, my fine fellow," John Davis said, with a laugh; "and since you are so unwilling to have me as an auditor, I will retire."