"Whither? I cannot take new misfortunes to mother's house."
"I have an idea. We have a relation of whom we have heard much, far off in the interior of the country, where they will never look for you, since we were never on good terms with him, Uncle Topándy."
"That infidel?" exclaimed Lorand; then he added bitterly, "It was a good idea of yours, indeed: I shall have a very good place in the house of an atheist, who lives at enmity with the whole earth, and with Heaven besides."
"There you will be well hidden."
"Well and for ever."
"Don't say that. This danger will pass away."
"Listen to me, Desi," said Lorand severely. "I shall abide by what you say: I shall go away, without once looking behind: I shall bury myself, but on one condition, which you must accept, or I shall go to the nearest police station and report myself."
"That you shall never tell either mother or grandmother, where I have gone to."
"Never?" I inquired, frightenedly.