"What was its nature?"
"To give me twenty-five gold onzas, on condition that I never restored my prisoner to liberty."
"And did you accept?" the Jaguar asked, eagerly.
"Hang it! Business is business, and twenty ounces are a tidy sum."
"Villain!" the young man exclaimed, as he rose furiously.
John Davis restrained him, and made him sit down again.
"Patience," he said.
"Hum!" Sandoval muttered, "You are deucedly quick; I allow that I promised not to set her at liberty, but not to prevent her flight; did I not tell you that I was a man of ideas?"
"That is true."
"The girl interested me, she wept. It is very foolish, but I do not like to see women cry since the day when——but that is not the point,"—he caught himself up—"she told me her name and story; I was affected in spite of myself, and the more so, as I saw a prospect of taking my revenge."