14/24 Make haste, indeed!" "A very hard case, I am sure. I sympathize with you, senores. Is the man a runaway that you have to take such care of him ?" "That is just it. He ran away and rambled for months in the forest; and if he had not stolen back to La Victoria and been betrayed by a woman, he would never have been caught. After that, the colonel would not trust him at large; but he thinks that at Caracas he will have him safe. |