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He therefore detached one ship and two caravels from Gomera to make the voyage direct. The ship was commanded by Alonzo Sanchez de Carbajal of Baeza. One caravel was intrusted to Pedro de Arana, brother of Beatriz Enriquez and brother-in-law of the admiral. The other had for her captain a Genoese cousin, Juan Antonio Colombo.
Then, my friend, I have no further instructions," said Hillyard. "I agree with you about Ramon. I will go first." He shook hands with Baeza, crossed the road and disappeared into the mouthway of an alley which ran up the hill parallel to the Rambla. The alley led into another side street, and turning to the right, Hillyard slipped out into the throng beneath the trees.
* Hernando de Baeza, as cited by Alcantara, Hist. Gran., t. 4, c. 18. The Christian army approached close to the city, and were laying waste the gardens and orchards when Boabdil sallied forth, surrounded by all that was left of the flower and chivalry of Granada. There is one place where even the coward becomes brave that sacred spot called home.
As he went out of the Maison Dorée, he felt in the right-hand pocket of his jacket to make sure that a little deadly life preserver lay ready to his hand. He did not distrust Lopez Baeza. All the work which Baeza had done for him had, indeed, been faithfully and discreetly done.
About a century later Alfonso VII. was battling against the pagans in Andalusia when, in the field of Baeza, the "warlike apparition of San Isidoro appeared in the heavens and encouraged the Christian soldiers."
In a corner a small, wizened, square man was sitting over his beer, brooding unhappily. Baeza took a seat by his side and talked with Juan de Maestre. He went out after a few minutes and hired a motor-car from the stand in front of the station. In the car he drove to the park and went once round it. At a junction of two paths on the second round the car was stopped.
Moreover, Señor Baeza has seen a letter which shows that he was certainly in Palma on the 23rd." "That is true," said Baeza. "Medina was in Palma on the 21st, and in Palma on the 23rd, and he did not cross to Barcelona on the night of the 21st, nor back again to Palma on the night of the 22nd.
He departed once more for Gibraltar, cruised up the coast, left his yacht once more in the harbour of Tarragona and travelled by motor-car into Barcelona. Fairbairn and Lopez Baeza received him. It was night, and hot with a staleness of the air which was stifling. The windows all stood open in the quiet, dark street, but the blinds and curtains were closely drawn before the lamps were lit.
Habit had bred in him a vigilance, or rather an instinct which quickly made him aware of any who shadowed him. "No, that is true," said Baeza, who had been watching Hillyard's approach from the window. "But I should like to know who our young friend is on the kerb opposite, and why he is standing sentinel." Lopez Baeza laughed. "He is the sign and token of the commercial activity of Spain."
The reduction of several towns, from Tolosa to Baeza, immediately followed this glorious victory a victory in which Don Alfonso nobly redeemed his failure in the field of Zalaca and which, in its immediate consequences, involved the ruin of the Mahometan empire in Spain.
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