"I know what it is for and so will you in time," Robert Jordan said.
"But now we go to the camp."
"Go to the unprintable," Agustin said.
"And unprint thyself.
But do you want me to tell you something of service to you?"
"Yes," said Robert Jordan.
"If it is not unprintable," naming the principal obscenity that had larded the conversation.
The man, Agustin, spoke so obscenely, coupling an obscenity to every noun as an adjective, using the same obscenity as a verb, that Robert Jordan wondered if he could speak a straight sentence.
Agustin laughed in the dark when he heard the word.
"It is a way of speaking I have.
Maybe it is ugly.
Who knows?
Each one speaks according to his manner.
Listen to me.
The bridge is nothing to me.
As well the bridge as another thing.
Also I have a boredom in these mountains.
That we should go if it is needed.
These mountains say nothing to me.
That we should leave them.
But I would say one thing.
Guard well thy explosive."
"Thank you," Robert Jordan said.
"From thee?"
"No," Agustin said.
"From people less unprintably equipped than I."
"So?" asked Robert Jordan.
"You understand Spanish," Agustin said seriously now.
"Care well for thy unprintable explosive."
"Thank you."
"No. Don't thank me.
Look after thy stuff."
"Has anything happened to it?"
"No, or I would not waste thy time talking in this fashion."
"Thank you all the same.
We go now to camp."
"Good," said Agustin, "and that they send some one here who knows the password."
"Will we see you at the camp?"
"Yes, man.
And shortly."
"Come on," Robert Jordan said to Anselmo.
They were walking down the edge of the meadow now and there was a gray mist.
The grass was lush underfoot after the pineneedle floor of the forest and the dew on the grass wet through their canvas rope-soled shoes.
Ahead, through the trees, Robert Jordan Could see a light where he knew the mouth of the cave must be.
"Agustin is a very good man," Anselmo said.
"He speaks very filthily and always in jokes but he is a very serious man."
"You know him well?"
"Yes.
For a long time.
I have much confidence in him."