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'You say the scheme is ripe, I said; 'how ripe? Arcoll looked at the clock. 'In half an hour's time Laputa will be with 'Mpefu. There he will stay the night. To-morrow morning he goes to Umvelos' to meet Henriques. To-morrow evening the gathering begins. 'One question, I said. 'How big a man is Laputa? 'The biggest thing that the Kaffirs have ever produced.
Another half-hour and the waning moon rose, throwing a beam of light into their chamber; also they heard horse's hoofs again. Going to the window, Peter looked out of it and saw the horse, a fine beast, being held by the landlord, then a man came and mounted it and, at some remark of his, turned his face upwards towards their window. It was that of Father Henriques.
This made her so unpopular that when Alfonso Raimundes, Urraca's son, attacked Theresa in 1127, made her acknowledge him as suzerain, and give up Tuy and Orense, Galician towns she had taken, the people rose against her and declared her son Affonso Henriques old enough to reign.
Laputa was probably of that opinion, but Henriques would recognize me, and I had no wish to have that yellow miscreant investigating my character. There was only one way out of it I must be incapably drunk. There was not a drop of liquor in the store, but I found an old whisky bottle half full of methylated spirits.
Also the wine that they had bought was there, very good and strong, and, whilst taking but little of it themselves for fear they should fever their wounds, they persuaded Father Henriques to drink heartily, so that in the end he forgot his cunning, and spoke with freedom.
"They are paying themselves for the mules and horses," said Fray Henriques with a shrug. "So I see," answered Castell, "but you " and he stopped. "Oh, do not be afraid for me," replied the priest with a cunning little smile. "The Church does not loot; but in the end the Church gets her share. These are a pious folk.
A little while later they heard the sound of a horse's hoofs, and the door of the house open and shut, after which there was more talking below, and mingling with it a new voice which Peter seemed to remember. "I have it," he whispered to Castell. "Here is our late host, Father Henriques, come to see how his guests are faring."
Not in my wildest nightmares had I imagined such a fate. Then in despite of myself a cry broke from me. 'It interests you? Laputa asked. 'I could tell you more, but something must be left to the fancy. Yours should be an active one, and his hand gripped my shaking wrist and felt my pulse. 'Henriques will see that the truth does not fall short of my forecast, he went on.
In the interval between these meetings Sir Moses attended the Queen's Drawing-Room, and was most graciously addressed there by Prince George of Cambridge, who said he was glad to see him, and reminded him of his having met him at Malta. At a meeting of the Board of Deputies on the 26th Sir Moses was unanimously elected their president, on the resignation of Mr J. H. Henriques.
At length everything was settled, and as their host, Father Henriques, had not yet appeared, they determined to depart without bidding him farewell, leaving some money in acknowledgment of his hospitality and as a gift to his church.
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