A narrow escape! If the sentry had made you go back or called the guard, all would have been lost." "How was it?
Did you stab him ?" "To the heart.

He has mounted guard for the last time.

So much the better.
It is an enemy and a Spaniard the less." "All the same, Senor Carmen, I would rather kill my enemies in fair fight than in cold blood." "I also; but there are occasions.

As likely as not this soldier would have been in the firing party told off to shoot you to-morrow morning.

There would not have been much fair fight in that.