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"Capital! capital!" repeated Fragoso unceasingly; "but I never thought Para was such a long way off!" As for Manoel and Benito, they had had a long conversation about what had passed. There could be no question about obtaining from Joam Garral the dismissal of his rescuer. "Your life is precious to me above all things!" Torres had said.
"Not only on that subject," answered Dacosta, "but on the subject of all the circumstances of my life which I have brought to your knowledge, and which are none of them open to question." "Eh! Joam Dacosta," quickly replied Judge Jarriquez. "You protest your innocence; but all prisoners do as much! After all, you only offer moral presumptions. Have you any material proof?"
A serious incident hastened the solution. Magalhaes was one day superintending a clearance and was mortally wounded by the fall of a tree. Carried home helpless to the farm, and feeling himself lost, he raised up Yaquita, who was weeping by his side, took her hand, and put it into that of Joam Garral, making him swear to take her for his wife.
"I know," said Fragoso, "and I will never forget what I owe here, any more than what I owe you." "They tell me, Fragoso," continued Joam, "that you are going to say good-by, and intend to remain at Tabatinga." "By no means, Mr. Garral, since you have allowed me to accompany you to Belem, where I hope at the least to be able to resume my old trade."
A few days would thus have to be passed at Manaos, and then Joam Dacosta and his people, free from all constraint, and released from all apprehension, would take leave of their host to go on board once more and continue their descent of the Amazon to Para, where the voyage was intended to terminate with the double marriage of Minha and Manoel and Lina and Fragoso.
But, notwithstanding this conviction, notwithstanding his talent and zeal, Ribeiro was unable to persuade the jury to take the same view of the matter. How could he remove so strong a presumption? If it was not Joam Dacosta, who had every facility for informing the scoundrels of the convoy's departure, who was it?
Garral," said he, "from the day when you received me at the fazenda of Iquitos, lodged, clothed, fed in a word, took me in so hospitably I have owed you " "You owe me absolutely nothing, my friend," answered Joam, "so do not insist " "Oh, do not be alarmed!" exclaimed Fragoso, "I am not going to pay it off!
THE WARRANT against Joam Dacosta, alias Joam Garral, had been issued by the assistant of Judge Ribeiro, who filled the position of the magistrate in the province of Amazones, until the nomination of the successor of the late justice. This assistant bore the name of Vicente Jarriquez.
Garral, that a barber who is also a hairdresser and I hardly like to say a doctor, out of respect to Mr. Manoel always finds customers in these Upper Amazon villages." "Particularly among the Brazilians," answered Joam. "As for the natives " "I beg pardon," replied Fragoso, "particularly among the natives.
On the 11th, Don Joam de Sousa, the Queen's Vidor, came from her Majesty to us both to welcome us into the country. On the 13th, her Majesty sent her chief coach, accompanied by other coaches, to fetch my husband to the audience of her Majesty, where she received him very graciously; and the same day he had audience of Don Pedro, the King's brother, at his own palace.
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