"You will go, won't you, and bring Marcelino back with you, it makes Justito bad to see Lola cry?" said he.
"I will go, and will not come here again till I bring Marcelino with me," said Don Carlos, raising the boy up in his arms and kissing him.
Dolores rose from her seat with a smile on her face as Evaña spoke.
"Always my friend and his brother," said she, then taking the boy from him she led him away with her into the house.
Don Carlos Evaña only remained long enough at the quinta to speak a few words to Doña Constancia, and to learn from her all she knew concerning the imprisonment of his friend Marcelino. Then, declining her urgent invitation to pass the night at the quinta, he remounted his horse and galloped away through the darkness for the city.
[CHAPTER VI]
THE EVE OF A GREAT EVENT
It was nine o'clock when Don Carlos Evaña reached the city. Without stopping either to change his dress or to take food, he had no sooner dismounted than he went straight to the house of Don Gregorio Lopez. In the first patio he met Valentin.