To save my life, I told him the story that he now brings to you.

After thus allaying his suspicions, I seized a favorable opportunity to escape.

By the superior swiftness of my horse I finally reached this place in safety, though pursued by him to your very lines and hotly fired upon, as can be proved by many witnesses.

Now, therefore, I, Jose Remelios, bearer of despatches from the Senor Carranza, denounce this man as a doubly dyed traitor, and demand that he be arrested on a charge of being a Cuban spy." "Have you ever seen him kill a Spaniard ?" asked General Pando.
Ridge was obliged to admit that he had not.
"Then how do you know that he has done so ?" "From his own boastful confession.

He claims to have taken the life of a Spanish soldier for every day of the last year." The General smiled.