It is 'Baylen.' I saw them take you to the tribunal, and as I knew that when you asked for a priest they would call in the first whom they saw, just to save themselves the trouble of going farther, I took care to be hereabout in this guise as you returned.

I was fortunate enough to meet you face to face, and you were sharp enough to detect my true character at a glance." "I am greatly indebted to you and Senor Carera--more than I can say.

You are risking your lives to save mine." "That is nothing, my dear sir.

I often risk my life twenty times in a day.
And what matters it?
We are all under sentence of death.

A few years and there will be an end of us." Salvador Carmen may have been twenty-six or twenty-eight years old.