They Stayed With Me Throughout The Day Till After Supper-Time, And Then The Jorobado Gave Me A Gold Ounce, And Mounting Their Horses, They Both Departed As Strangely As They Had Come, In The Dark Night, I Know Not Whither."

"Is that all?" I demanded.

"No, Senor, it is not all; for I was right in supposing them evil brujos: the very next day an express arrived and a great search was made after them, and I was arrested for having harboured them. This occurred just after the present wars had commenced. It was said they were spies and emissaries of I don't know what nation, and that they had been in all parts of the Asturias, holding conferences with some of the disaffected. They escaped, however, and were never heard of more, though the animals which they rode were found without their riders, wandering amongst the hills; they were common ponies, and were of no value. As for the brujos, it is believed that they embarked in some small vessel which was lying concealed in one of the rias of the coast."

Myself. - What was the word which you continually heard proceeding from the lips of the big servant, and which you think you can remember?

Host. - Senor, it is now three years since I heard it, and at times I can remember it and at others not; sometimes I have started up in my sleep repeating it. Stay, Senor, I have it now at the point of my tongue:

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