"Tell me, have you heard any news?"
"Not yet, but we will hear some before long I'm sure."
"Your faith does as much for me as this lady's care. But when you
go away, when I'm alone, when I begin to think--"
"Don't think too much; don't permit yourself to doubt," O'Reilly
said, quickly. "Take my word for it, Rosa is alive and we'll find
her somewhere, somehow. You heard that she had fallen into Cobo's
hands when he sacked the Yumuri, but now we know that she and the
negroes were living in the Pan de Matanzas long after that. In the
same way Lopez assured me positively that you were dead. Well,
look at you! It shows how little faith we can put in any story.
No, Rosa is safe, and General Gomez will soon have word of her.
That's what I've been waiting for--that and what you might have to
tell me."
"You know all that I know now and everything that has happened to
me."
"I don't know how you came to be in a cell in San Antonio de los
Banos, two hundred miles from the place you were killed. That is
still a mystery."
"It is very simple, amigo. Let me see: I had finished telling you
about the fight at La Joya. I was telling you how I fainted."
"Exactly. Norine bound and gagged you at that point in the story."
"Some good people found me a few hours after I lost consciousness.
They supposed I had been attacked by guerrillas and left for dead.
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