"And thy people?" Agustin said to Pablo out of his dry mouth.
"All dead," Pablo said.
He was almost unable to breathe.
Agustin turned his head and looked at him.
"We have plenty of horses now, _Ingles_," Pablo panted.
"Good," Robert Jordan said.
The murderous bastard, he thought.
"What did you encounter?"
"Everything," Pablo said.
He was breathing in lunges.
"What passed with Pilar?"
"She lost Fernando and the brother--"
"Eladio," Agustin said.
"And thou?" Pablo asked.
"I lost Anselmo."
"There are lots of horses," Pablo said.
"Even for the baggage."
Agustin bit his lip, looked at Robert Jordan and shook his head.
Below them, out of sight through the trees, they heard the tank firing on the road and bridge again.
Robert Jordan jerked his head.
"What passed with that?" he said to Pablo.
He did not like to look at Pablo, nor to smell him, but he wanted to hear him.
"I could not leave with that there," Pablo said.
"We were barricaded at the lower bend of the post.
Finally it went back to look for something and I came."
"What were you shooting at, at the bend?" Agustin asked bluntly.
Pablo looked at him, started to grin, thought better of it, and said nothing.
"Did you shoot them all?" Agustin asked.
Robert Jordan was thinking, keep your mouth shut.
It is none of your business now.
They have done all that you could expect and more.
This is an intertribal matter.
Don't make moral judgments.
What do you expect from a murderer?
You're working with a murderer.
Keep your mouth shut.
You knew enough about him before.
This is nothing new.
But you dirty bastard, he thought.
You dirty, rotten bastard.
His chest was aching with climbing as though it would split after the running and ahead now through the trees he saw the horses.
"Go ahead," Agustin was saying.
"Why do you not say you shot them?"
"Shut up," Pablo said.
"I have fought much today and well.
Ask the _Ingles_."
"And now get us through today," Robert Jordan said.
"For it is thee who has the plan for this."
"I have a good plan," Pablo said.
"With a little luck we will be all right."