"It's been a long, tedious tramp, hasn't it?
Well, we've not wasted our time, nor had our toil for nothing.

Come, _teniente_, fill your glass again, and let us drink to our commercial adventure.

Here's that in the disposal of our goods we may be as successful as in their purchase!" Right merrily the lieutenant refilled his glass, and responded to the toast of his superior officer.
"I suspect, Roblez," continued the Colonel, "that you have been all the while wondering how I came to know about this caravan whose spoil is to enrich us--its route--the exact time of its arrival, the strength of its defenders--everything?
You think our friend the Horned Lizard gave me all this information." "No, I don't; since that could not well be.

How was Horned Lizard to know himself--that is, in time to have sent word to you?
In truth, _mio Coronel_, I am, as you say, in a quandary about all that.

I cannot even guess at the explanation." "This would give it to you, if you could read; but I know you cannot, _mio teniente_; your education has been sadly neglected.