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Much as the unknown had hesitated in offering shelter to Don Pedro de Luna and his daughter, -- and we know in what terms the offer had been finally made, -- he showed himself equally anxious, as soon as his decision was made, to quit that part of the forest where the scene passed which we have recorded in our preceding chapter. His eyes wandered about continually with a disquietude he took no pains to conceal. He turned his head repeatedly towards the hillock, as if he expected to see some horrible apparition suddenly rising from its summit.
In the state the girl was in, to awaken her would have been to commit a grave imprudence, seriously compromising her health. In accordance with orders delivered in a dry tone by the unknown, the _peones_ of Don Pedro, and the _hacendero_ himself, hastened to cut down some branches, in order to fashion a litter, which they covered with dry leaves. Over these they spread their _zarapes_, of which they deprived themselves in order to make a softer couch for their young mistress.