"Do you want it?"
"Later," Robert Jordan said.
"I wished to know where it is."
"It is there," Primitivo said.
"I brought it in and I have wrapped it in my blanket to keep the action dry.
The pans are in that sack."
"He would not do that," Pilar said.
"He would not do anything with the _maquina_."
"I thought you said he would do anything."
"He might," she said.
"But he has no practice with the _maquina_.
He could toss in a bomb.
That is more his style."
"It is an idiocy and a weakness not to have killed him," the gypsy said.
He had taken no part in any of the talk all evening.
"Last night Roberto should have killed him."
"Kill him," Pilar said.
Her big face was dark and tired looking.
"I am for it now."
"I was against it," Agustin said.
He stood in front of the fire, his long arms hanging by his sides, his cheeks, stubble-shadowed below the cheekbones, hollow in the firelight.
"Now I am for it," he said.
"He is poisonous now and he would like to see us all destroyed."
"Let all speak," Pilar said and her voice was tired.
"Thou, Andres?"
"_Matarlo_," the brother with the dark hair growing far down in the point on his forehead said and nodded his head.
"Eladio?"
"Equally," the other brother said.
"To me he seems to constitute a great danger.
And he serves for nothing."
"Primitivo?"
"Equally."
"Fernando?"
"Could we not hold him as a prisoner?" Fernando asked.
"Who would look after a prisoner?" Primitivo said.
"It would take two men to look after a prisoner and what would we do with him in the end?"
"We could sell him to the fascists," the gypsy said.
"None of that," Agustin said.
"None of that filthiness."
"It was only an idea," Rafael, the gypsy, said.
"It seems to me that the _facciosos_ would be happy to have him."
"Leave it alone," Agustin said.
"That is filthy."
"No filthier than Pablo," the gypsy justified himself.
"One filthiness does not justify another," Agustin said.
"Well, that is all.
Except for the old man and the _Ingles_."
"They are not in it," Pilar said.
"He has not been their leader."
"One moment," Fernando said.