From the church, our procession, dwindled to the particular friends and guests of honor, walked through the village to the justice-court, where the civil ceremony was performed.

The matter having been accomplished with full respect to the requirements of the law, we thought again of dinner.

The _jefe_ told us that to-morrow we should go to our boarding-place, but that to-day we were to dine together in state.

Time passed, hour after hour lagged by, until the _mozo_ and _arriero_ struck for money, with which to buy themselves something to eat.

Meantime, we waited.