One man can easily be jostled into one of the temples, and made away with, without any being the wiser.

I will choose two comrades for you; men of discretion, and courageous without being quarrelsome.

With them, too, you will, ere long, begin to recover your mother tongue; which you will never do, so long as you only talk these heathen languages with Marina and Father Aquilar." Cortez struck the table with his hand, and an attendant entered.
"Summon Juan Algones and Pedro de Gasconda." In a minute two men entered.

Juan was a weatherbeaten soldier, whose face bore the marks of several deep scars, and who had fought for Spain on most of the battlefields of Europe.

Pedro was young enough to be his son.