“Can you read it?”
“Not off hand. With your permission I will take it to my tent, and I think I can study it out there.”
“Do so. When you make English of it I’d like to know what it says. I am getting interested in it”
The lieutenant bowed, and went away.
“Bring that prisoner to me,” the captain ordered, later in the day.
“Do you want to go free?” he asked, when the Tagalog had been brought.
“If the Señor wills.”
“What is that book?”
The man made no answer.
“Tell me what the book is, and why you wanted it; and you may go home.”