"
"But this only brings us from one prison to another," objected
the general. "We might be penned in here as well as at the
castle."
"Even that contingency has been provided for. You noticed,
perhaps, where the tunnel forked. The left branch runs down to
the river-wash, and by ten minutes' digging with the tools lying
there one can force an exit."
"Your excellency is certainly a wonder, and all this done without
arousing the least suspicion of anybody," admired the warden.
"The wise man, my dear colonel, prepares for emergencies; the
fool trusts to his luck," replied the governor dryly.
"Are we to stay here for the present, colonel?" broke in the
governor's daughter. "And can you furnish accommodations for the
rest of us if we stay all night, as I expect we must?"
"My dear senorita, I have accommodations and to spare. But the
trouble is that your presence would become known. I should be the
happiest' man alive to put my all at the accommodation of
Chihuahua's fairest daughter. But if it should get out that you
are here--" Gabilonda stopped to shrug his fat shoulders at the
prospect.
"We shall have to stay here, or, at least, in the lower tier of
cells.
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