IT did not lighten.

Escobedo waited two days, then in the dark night, corrupting the watch, broke gaol for Pedro Gutierrez and with him and nine men quitted La Navidad.

Beltran the cook it was who heard and procured a great smoking torch, and sent out against them a voice like a bull of Bashan's.

Arana sprang up, and the rest of us who slept.

They were eleven men, armed and alert.