Come and look." "I have seen," said Blood.

"He died before I left the Cinco Llagas.

He was hanging dead in his bonds when I spoke to him before leaving." "What are you saying ?" cried Esteban.
Blood looked at him gravely.

Yet for all his gravity he seemed almost to smile, though without mirth.
"If you had known that, eh ?" he asked at last.

For a moment Don Esteban stared at him wide-eyed, incredulous.