CHAPTER XVI.
THE AZUFERALES.
"What is General Griscelli's game?
Does he really mean to let me go, or is he merely playing with me as a cat plays with a mouse ?" I asked Guzman, as we sat at supper.
"That is just the question I have been asking myself.

I never knew him let a prisoner go before, and I know of no reason why he should treat you more leniently than he treats others.

Do you ?" "No.

He is more likely to bear me a grudge," and then I told Guzman what had befallen at Salamanca.
"That makes it still less probable that he will let you go away quietly.
Griscelli never forgives, and to-day's fiasco has put him in a devil of a temper.

He is malicious, too.