f mind and body. The poor
Indian is for the present safe. I can guess the way he escaped; but we
will talk on the matter more to-morrow. Now, David, go to your room and
rest, for you look pale and fatigued."

I did not tell my father that the dog had bit me, though I should have
been wiser had I done so, as he would have had proper remedies applied,
had the wounds required them. Jose, however, soon after came into my
room and fomented my leg with a mixture which he said was very
efficacious in preventing inflammation from the bite of an animal. It
at all events relieved me from the pain I was suffering; and when Jose
left me to keep watch with the other servants on the officers, I threw
myself on my bed in the hopes of obtaining some sleep. Whenever I
dropped off, my mind recurred to the unfortunate descendant of the
Incas, and the scenes I had just witnessed; and every instant I was
jumping up, fancying I heard the shout of the officers as they
discovered his place of concealment.

CHAPTER THREE.

A JOURNEY AND THE ADVENTURES WE MET WITH.

I awoke to perfect consciousness (for I could scarcely be said to have
been asleep all night) just as the first faint streaks of dawn were
appearing in the sky; and hearing the voices of men, and the stamping of
horses in the court-yard, I looked out of the window to learn what was
occurring. At first my mind misgave me that the alguazil and his
myrmidons had by some means seized the Indian; but as I scrutinised the
dark forms which appeared in the cold grey light of the morning, I could
not distinguish his among them.

The men mounted one after the other apparently in good humour, for Jose
was there among the other servants with a huge flagon of wine to serve
out to them the stirrup-cup at parting, a custom observed in most
countries. It was a great relief to my mind when the gates were opened
and I saw them fairly outside the walls. As the light increased, I
watched them slowly winding along the steep path which led up the
mountain, till they disappeared in a dark gorge which opened before
them.

"You will have a long ride if you do not intend to halt till you have
caught the fugitive in that direction," said I to myself, just as Jose
entered.

"I have sent the rogues off in good humour," he observed. "Wine is a
fine thing to raise the spirits, though to my mind last night they took
enough to raise more than they expected--ha, ha, ha! They thought they
were