I tell you this, because there is no question of Lieutenant Navarro's loyalty, and I assign you to this duty to show how entirely I trust you." "I will do my best, sir," replied the young Spaniard, acknowledging this compliment with a bow.

Then, wondering in which direction his duty really lay, he departed in company with the Major, who was impatient to make good his charges against the Senor Remelios.
Lieutenant Navarro had been moody and unhappy ever since the coming of the American transports.

He had not confided his trouble to his companion, but had performed his duties mechanically, and would not talk of anything else.

Ridge noticed this change in his friend, and had formed a shrewd guess as to its cause, but waited for the other to speak first concerning it.
In the mean time, as the young trooper neared Daiquiri, he met scouts from Captain del Rey's detachment hastening towards headquarters with news that the Americans were landing.

At this he increased his speed, until he finally reached the hill agreed upon as a place of meeting with Navarro, and then his heart was thrilled with the sight out-spread before him.