It is an insult to our understanding to tell us that you have come here out of idle curiosity.

You have come to spy out the nakedness of the land, and being a soldier you know how spies are dealt with." Here the president held a whispered consultation with his colleagues.

Then he turned to me, and continued: "We are of opinion that the charges against you have been fully made out, and the sentence of the court is that you be strangled on the Plaza Major to-morrow morning at seven by the clock." "Strangled! Surely, senores, you will not commit so great an infamy?
This is a mere mockery of a trial.

I have neither seen an indictment nor been confronted by witnesses.

Call this a sentence! I call it murder." "If you do not moderate your language, prisoner, you will be strangled to-night instead of to-morrow.