The prefect and the public prosecutor were staying with the deputy-mayor, and the colonel, who was very uneasy about his daughter, was paying them his twentieth call, to ask if they had heard of her, when a rifleman, whom the sergeant had sent on in advance, arrived with the full story of the great fight with the brigands-a fight in which nobody had been either killed or wounded, but which had resulted in the capture of a cooking-pot, a pilone, and two girls, whom the man described as the mistresses, or the spies, of the two bandits.
Hark eman zien bidelapurrekin izandako borroka beldurgarriaren berri. Borrokan hildako eta zauritu askorik ez zen izan, baina marmita bat, pilone bat eta bi gazte harrapatu zituzten; gaizkileen maitale edo zelatariak, hark zioenez.