"Two?"
"Yes.
The _mujer_ of Pablo."
"And she?"
"In the cave.
The girl can cook a little.
I said she cooks well to please her.
But mostly she helps the _mujer_ of Pablo."
"And how is she, the _mujer_ of Pablo?"
"Something barbarous," the gypsy grinned.
"Something very barbarous.
If you think Pablo is ugly you should see his woman.
But brave.
A hundred times braver than Pablo.
But something barbarous."
"Pablo was brave in the beginning," Anselmo said.
"Pablo was something serious in the beginning."
"He killed more people than the cholera," the gypsy said.
"At the start of the movement, Pablo killed more people than the typhoid fever."
"But since a long time he is _muy flojo_," Anselmo said.
"He is very flaccid.
He is very much afraid to die."
"It is possible that it is because he has killed so many at the beginning," the gypsy said philosophically.
"Pablo killed more than the bubonic plague."
"That and the riches," Anselmo said.
"Also he drinks very much.
Now he would like to retire like a _matador de toros_.
Like a bullfighter.
But he cannot retire."
"If he crosses to the other side of the lines they will take his horses and make him go in the army," the gypsy said.
"In me there is no love for being in the army either."
"Nor is there in any other gypsy," Anselmo said.
"Why should there be?" the gypsy asked.
"Who wants to be in an army?
Do we make the revolution to be in an army?
I am willing to fight but not to be in an army."
"Where are the others?" asked Robert Jordan.
He felt comfortable and sleepy now from the wine and lying back on the floor of the forest he saw through the tree tops the small afternoon clouds of the mountains moving slowly in the high Spanish sky.
"There are two asleep in the cave," the gypsy said.
"Two are on guard above where we have the gun.
One is on guard below.
They are probably all asleep."
Robert Jordan rolled over on his side.
"What kind of a gun is it?"
"A very rare name," the gypsy said.
"It has gone away from me for the moment.
It is a machine gun." It must be an automatic rifle, Robert Jordan thought.
"How much does it weigh?" he asked.
"One man can carry it but it is heavy. It has three legs that fold.
We got it in the last serious raid.