She is about to write, when a thought restrains her.
"Does your comrade understand Spanish ?" she asks.
"Only a word or two.

He speaks English, or, as we call it, American." "Can he read ?" "Indifferently.

Enough, I suppose, for--" "Senor," she says, interrupting him, "I need not ask if you can write.
Take this, and put it in your own language.

Say you are gone south, due south, to a distance of about six miles.

Tell your friend to stay here till some one comes to meet and conduct him to where you'll be found." Hamersley perceives the rationality of these instructions.