Will you deliver a letter for me ?" "With pleasure." "Take this letter, then, my friend, and deliver it at Manaos." The Indian took the letter which Joam gave him, and a handful of reis was the price of the commission he had undertaken.
No members of the family, then gone into the house, knew anything of this.

Torres was the only witness.

He heard a few words exchanged between Joam and the Indian, and from the cloud which passed over his face it was easy to see that the sending of this letter considerably surprised him..