Here's where the grave-digger brought Lieutenant Guevara and me." Ibarra warmly grasped the hand of the young man, who went on: "You have no occasion to thank me.

I owed many favors to your father, and the only thing that I could do for him was to accompany his body to the grave.

I came here without knowing any one, without recommendation, and having neither name nor fortune, just as at present.

My predecessor had abandoned the school to engage in the tobacco trade.

Your father protected me, secured me a house, and furnished whatever was necessary for running the school.