He was garroted." "Garroted! What for ?" "Treason.

There was discovered a compromising correspondence between him and Bolivar.

But why ask me?
As a friend of Senor Ulloa, you surely know all this ?" "I never was a friend of his--never even saw him! I had merely a letter to him from a common friend.

But how happened it that Senor Ulloa, who, I believe, was a _correjidor_, entered into a correspondence with the arch-traitor ?" "That made it all the worse.

He richly deserved his fate.