“Williams, who during this speech had weighed the pros and cons of everything, Williams, who realized that if she did that infamy, the political leader would be so fierce and relentless with him cowardly and sneaky and would remain with the intrepid general , who would never dare to demand accountability from his honor, the poor Williams, who on one hand and looked miserably lost another half a million could be gained at the expense of greater or lesser risks; Williams, say, accepted what was proposed …
“Why grieve you to specify the disgusting preparations for what happened that night? Suffice it to say that when the Earl of Umbria was moving at about one o’clock, entirely alone, the little door of the Chief of iron, carrying in his pocket the key of the postern by which it came from the fort, did not notice that two men watched the moonlight, hiding in the weeds of the ditch, or less found that two hundred feet away, there were three men on horseback, hidden among the trees, and noted, finally, that something further, in the depression that formed the bed of the river, were lying on the ground eight hundred rebels, whose white berets and rifles seemed vague glittering radiance of the star of the night.
“The two ambushed on the street were two officers who knew a lot of the Carlist general.
“All three of the trees were: Williams (who was already twenty-five thousand dollars in a case subject to the saddle of his horse), and two colonels rebels who, pistol in hand, guarding the policeman, waiting, to let him run free with money, some signal to tell them agreed that the two officers had admitted to General Fernández de Lara …