"Will you be seated, senor: then we can talk." Hervey sat down quietly close to the Peruvian; who then leaned forward to address him.
"You will have a cigarette ?" he asked, offering a silver case.
"Thanks, no.

I'll smoke a cheroot if the lady don't mind." "Not at all," replied Lucy, who, along with Archie and the Professor, was puzzled by Don Pedro's manner.

"Please smoke!" In taking back the case Don Pedro allowed it to drop.

As he made no motion of picking it up, Hervey, although annoyed with himself for his politeness towards a yellow-stomach, as he called De Gayangos, was compelled to stretch for it.

As he handed it back to Don Pedro, the Peruvian's eyes lighted up and he nodded gravely.
"Thank you, Vasa," said De Gayangos, and Hervey, changing color, leaped from his seat as though touched by a spear-point..