Chapter CXCIX: Act II: The opportunity for this comes very quickly. As the miller one

evening is sitting with his wife in their cozy room, there comes a knock at the door. It is the drunken court messenger, _Tonuelo_, who produces a warrant of arrest. _Tio Lucas_ must follow him without delay to the alcalde who has lent himself as a willing instrument to the _Corregidor_. _Frasquita_ is trying to calm her anxiety with a song when outside there is a cry for help. She opens the door and before it stands the _Corregidor_ dripping with water. He had fallen in the brook. Now he begs admission from _Frasquita_ who is raging with anger. He has also brought with him the appointment of the nephew. But the angry woman will pay no attention and sends the _Corregidor_ away from her threshold. Then he falls in a swoon. His own servant now comes along. _Frasquita_ admits both of them to the house and herself goes into town to look for her _Tio Lucas_. When the _Corregidor_, awakened out of his swoon, hears this, full of anxiety, he sends his valet after her; he himself, however, hangs his wet clothes before the fire and goes to bed in the miller's bedroom.

(Change of scene.) In the meantime _Tio Lucas_ has drunk under the table the alcalde and his fine comrades and seizes the occasion to flee.

Act III. In the darkness of the night, _Tio Lucas_ and _Frasquita_ pass by without seeing each other. The miller comes to his mill. (Change of scene.) Everything is open. In the dust lies the appointment of the nephew; before the fire hang the _Corregidor's_ clothes. A frightful suspicion arises in _Tio Lucas's_ mind which becomes certainty when through the keyhole he sees the _Corregidor_ in his own bed. He is already groping for his rifle to shoot the seducer and the faithless woman when another thought strikes him. The _Corregidor_ also has a wife, a beautiful wife. Here the _Corregidor's_ clothes are hanging. He quickly slips into them and goes back to town. In the meantime the _Corregidor_ has awakened. He wants to go back home now. But he does not find his clothes and so he crawls into those of the miller. Thus he is almost arrested by the alcalde who now enters with his companions and _Frasquita_. When the misunderstanding is cleared up, they all go with different feelings into the town after the miller.