" "I would also go," remarked the alferez, "because I need a watch-chain, but I'm so busyif Capitan Basilio would undertake" Capitan Basilio would do so with the greatest pleasure, and as he wished to propitiate the soldier in order that he might not be molested in the persons of his laborers, he refused to accept the money which the alferez was trying to get out of his pocket.