And I am hungry.

Tell the cook to be sure and let it be a good one, and as soon as possible." Much surprised by these orders, the black girl again left her.
"My father has gone to town," she said to the boys, when they joined her.

"When he comes back, I will ask him what can be done.
It will not be easy to hide you, for these negroes chatter like so many parrots; and the news will spread all over the town that some English boys are here, and in that case they will take you away, and my father would be powerless as I to help you." The black cook was, indeed, astonished at the demolition of the breakfast effected by her young mistress; but she put it down to the fact that she must have given a large portion of it to her dogs, of which one or more were generally her companions, in the garden.
Fortunately, on the present occasion, the great bloodhound Zeres had gone down into the town with his master.

Of this, however, the cook knew nothing; and muttered to herself somewhat angrily, as she saw the empty dishes which were brought back to her, "that it was a sin to give, to that creature, a meal which was sufficient for five noblemen." When Senor Sagasta returned to his beautiful villa, in the afternoon, his daughter at once confided to him what had happened.
He entered warmly into her scheme for the aid and protection of the lads, and expressed himself willing to do anything that she could suggest.
"But," he said, "you know as well as I do that, if the news gets about that two boys of Captain Drake's band are here, nothing will save them from the rage of the population; and indeed, if the people and the military authorities were disposed to let them alone, the Inquisition would be too strong for them, and would claim its own; and against the Inquisition even governors are powerless.

Therefore if they are to stop, and stop they must, at least for a time, it must be done in perfect secrecy.
"There is no possibility of disguising two English boys to look like negroes.