By the time the two guards' conversation had finished, Carto and Águila had finished siphoning half of the two full barrels into their hiding places, completing the deception of their ingress. If anypony questioned those four barrels, then even if the importer on paper admitted the bribe he took, his story wouldn’t match the facts: he would admit to having smuggled in nuts, but the barrels were just underloaded with wine.