"Si, Seño'; it was then that he wrote the answer and present it to me."

"And said—?"

"He said, oh! I assure the Seño' it was nothing worthy to hear; the Seño' would not—"

"He said—?" There was a dangerous light in Don Gil's eye.

"And I must tell the Seño'? He said, 'Here! give this to that—that—'"

"That—?"

"'That truhan!' I pray the Don Gil forgive me; the Don Gil make me—"

Silencio's face had flushed darkly.

"Continue."

Rotiro, embarrassed beyond measure, forgot what he had learned by fair means and what by foul, and blundered on.