6/27 You pushed Geronimo into the arm-chair; you buried his body; consequently you will accompany me to the scaffold, unless, in your capacity of servant, they may choose to hang you or break you on the wheel. O Julio! does not this information awaken you to a sense of our perilous condition ?" "From whom did you learn all that ?" asked the affrighted servant. In spite of your courage and coolness, I think I may say that you have no stronger desire than myself to die by the hand of the executioner." Julio put his hand to his throat and said, dejectedly: "The affair looks serious. I seem to be strangling; I feel the rope around my neck. |