"Rest easy, Carlos.

It may be better if they be not too clever." "It--it is that which I fear, Don Luis," replied the secretary, in a still lower voice.

"I have been studying their faces--especially their eyes as they spoke.

Don Luis, I much fear that they are very clever young men." "Ah! Then again that is not bad," laughed the master gayly.
"If they be clever, then they will not need so much explanation." Now the secretary became bolder.
"Don Luis, though you have spent many years in the United States, I fear you do not at all understand some traits of the Gringo character," warned Dr.Tisco.

"For example, you want these young men for a special service, and you are willing to pay them generously--lavishly in fact.