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Rh a Spanish officer: and the patrol outside marched on.

As I could not understand the talk, Dan translated it. "If we keep quiet for awhile I think we'll be all right," he said.

And we did keep quiet, for an hour or more. But nobody came near the offices during that time, and at last we considered ourselves, for the time being, safe.