`` although there is no longer a threat to us from the jefe de la policia , whom i last saw climbing the steeple of the cathedral de santa maria la vieja , stark nak*d and proclaiming himself to be the new mayor of cartagena ... '' i say , all nonchalant , `` ... and although all his henchmen are now in jail or the insane asylum , and the political future of don pedro de castro , chief of police , looks grim-he did take a few pistol shots at the present mayor on his way up the steeple-it might be better , papa zoltan , if we did break camp and push on . ''