"You have observed Torres well, have you not?
You have remarked his attentions to my sister! Nothing can be truer! But while you have been noticing that, have you not seen that this annoying man never keeps his eyes off my father, no matter if he is near to him or far from him, and that he seems to have some spiteful secret intention in watching him with such unaccountable persistency ?" "What are you talking about, Benito?
Have you any reason to think that Torres bears some grudge against Joam Garral ?" "No! I think nothing!" replied Benito; "it is only a presentiment! But look well at Torres, study his face with care, and you will see what an evil grin he has whenever my father comes into his sight." "Well, then," exclaimed Manoel, "if it is so, Benito, the more reason for clearing him out!" "More reason--or less reason," replied Benito.

"Manoel, I fear--what?
I know not--but to force my father to get rid of Torres would perhaps be imprudent! I repeat it, I am afraid, though no positive fact enables me to explain my fear to myself!" And Benito seemed to shudder with anger as he said these words.
"Then," said Manoel, "you think we had better wait ?" "Yes; wait, before doing anything, but above all things let us be on our guard!" "After all," answered Manoel, "in twenty days we shall be at Manaos.
There Torres must stop.

There he will leave us, and we shall be relieved of his presence for good! Till then we must keep our eyes on him!" "You understand me, Manoel ?" asked Benito.
"I understand you, my friend, my brother!" replied Manoel, "although I do not share, and cannot share, your fears! What connection can possibly exist between your father and this adventurer?
Evidently your father has never seen him!" "I do not say that my father knows Torres," said Benito; "but assuredly it seems to me that Torres knows my father.

What was the fellow doing in the neighborhood of the fazenda when we met him in the forest of Iquitos?
Why did he then refuse the hospitality which we offered, so as to afterward manage to force himself on us as our traveling companion?
We arrive at Tabatinga, and there he is as if he was waiting for us! The probability is that these meetings were in pursuance of a preconceived plan.

When I see the shifty, dogged look of Torres, all this crowds on my mind.