Good-by!" A warm grasp of the hand from each was the only reply, and I turned once more to my discomforted friends the Guerillas.
"There, Mike, let the poor devil rise.

I confess appearances were strong against me just now." "Well, Captain, are you convinced by this time that I was not deceiving you ?" The Guerilla muttered some words of apology between his teeth, and while he shook the dust from his cloak, and arranged the broken feather of his hat, cast a look of scowling and indignant meaning upon Mike, whose rough treatment he had evidently not forgiven.
"Don't be looking at me that way, you black thief! or I'll--" "Hold there!" said I; "no more of this.

Come, gentlemen, we must be friends.

If I mistake not, we've got something like refreshment at our bivouac.

In any case you'll partake of our watch-fire till morning." They gladly accepted our invitation, and ere half an hour elapsed Mike's performance in the part of host had completely erased every unpleasant impression his first appearance gave rise to; and as for myself, when I did sleep at last, the confused mixture of Spanish and Irish airs which issued from the thicket beside me, proved that a most intimate alliance had grown up between the parties..