"What do you mean?"
"Call him away, draw him off. Tell him to come to the rancho—that I wish to see him about preparations as to their safety. Get him away on any pretext. Leave the others here with no one to—"
"It is not necessarily a flood," said the girl, with a strange, new, wicked hope springing up within her heart.
"It will be a flood," said Uncle Adan. "It is breaking even now at Point Galizza."
For answer Agueda arose.
"Good girl! You are going, then, to tell him—"
"Yes, to tell him—"
"Call him away! I will saddle the horses. I will have the grey at the back steps in five minutes. Tell him that Don Silencio has need of him."
"If the Don Silencio's own letter would not—"