"It is true, Mother of God," said Chucha of the Mill; "it was Domingo who himself relates it as it were the Creed.

When the American escort had arrived with the young gentleman, this escort, look you, being not of the same quality, he is departing again without a word of permission.

Comes to him at this moment my little hidalgo.

'You have yourself forgotten to take from me your demission,' he said.

This escort, thinking to make his peace with a mere muchacho, gives to him a gold piece of twenty pesos.