By whose orders?
By mine, I am an officer of the day, and if you disobey I'll have you flogged till you never ask another question.' 'Shall I call the Teules within ?' said the man sulkily to his companion.
'No,' he answered; 'the lord Sarceda is weary and gave orders that he should not be awakened without good cause.

Keep them in or let them through as you will, but do not wake him.' I trembled in every limb; de Garcia was in the guardhouse! What if he awoke, what if he came out and saw me?
More--now I guessed whose voice it was that I knew again; it was that of one of those Tlascalans who had aided in tormenting me.

What if he should see my face?
He could scarcely fail to know that on which he had left his mark so recently.

I was dumb with fear and could say nothing, and had it not been for the wit of Otomie, there my story would have ended.

But now she played her part and played it well, plying the man with the coarse raillery of the camp, till at length she put him in a good humour, and he opened the gate, bidding her begone and me with her.