“Si, habla le a la muchacha y sus amigos.”
Natachee interpreted:
“Yes, call the girl and her friends.”
A few minutes later Mother Burton, Thad, Hugh Edwards and Marta were with Saint Jimmy and the Indian in the presence of the dying Mexican.
CHAPTER XXXI
THE MEXICAN’S CONFESSION
It was well that no one in the room, save Natachee and the Mexican, could at that moment see Saint Jimmy’s face.
SLOWLY the eyes of the Mexican turned from face to face of the silent group. But it was upon Saint Jimmy’s face that his gaze finally rested, and it was to Saint Jimmy that he addressed himself. The Indian, as coldly impersonal and impassive as a mechanical instrument, translated:
“He says that you, Doctor Burton, are a man who lives very close to God. When you are near him, he can feel God.”
“God is never far from any man,” returned Saint Jimmy.
Natachee translated the Doctor’s words, and the Mexican replied in his mother tongue, which the Indian rendered in English.