"They were not caught!"
"They fired the desert!"
"Car-r-amba!"
"Yes, stampeded a hundred riders! You must have seen the fire at dawn this morning."
"Todos Santos! That was El Chico Santiago disguised as a vaquero?"
"Yes, and Curly as a farm boy—you saw them?"
"Man, we've got them here in chains! Two thousand pesos d'oro! Por Dios! You have made me rich with your news!"
"In chains, corporal? Then they did not escape after all! They fought like caballeros, and now they'll be claimed for extradition, taken back, and hanged! Hombre, that's no death for caballeros! How did you ever take such fighters, corporal?"
"Oh, just arrested them."
"But they fought a hundred Americanos!"