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CHAPTER XXI. THE PRISONERS.
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For some seconds there was a silence, pregnant with menace. The two men were standing1 face to face. This silence don Melchior de la Cruz was the first to break.
"Ah, ah, ah!" he said, bursting into a hoarse2 laugh, and sinking again on the border of the hammock, "Was I so wrong in saying to you, my dear sir, that you entered my house for the purpose of assassinating3 me?"
The adventurer bit his lip savagely4, and the unlucky revolver.
"Well, no!" he exclaimed, in a loud voice; "No, I repeat, I will not kill you, for you are not worthy5 to die by the hand of an honest man; but I will compel you to confess the truth to me."
The young man looked at him with a singular expression. "Try it," he said, with a disdainful shrug6 of the shoulders.
Then he began carelessly rolling in his fingers a dainty husk cigarette, lit it, and while sending up to the ceiling a puff7 of blue and perfumed smoke, he said—
"Come, I am waiting for you."
"Good! This is what I propose to you: you are my prisoner, well, I will restore you to liberty if you will deliver do?a Dolores, I will not say into my hands, but into those of Count de la Saulay, her cousin, whom she is going to marry immediately."
"Hum! This is serious, my dear sir; please remember that I am my sister's legal guardian8."
"How her guardian?"
"Yes, since our father is dead."
"Don Andrés de la Cruz dead?" the adventurer exclaimed, leaping up.
"Alas9! Yes," the young man replied, hypocritically raising his eyes to heaven; "we had the grief of losing him the night before last, and he was buried yesterday morning; the poor old gentleman could not resist the
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