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He was proud to have been the recipient of kindness from heaven, and he related, frankly and circumstantially, how he had appealed to the Virgin, for what good purpose, how she had answered, how Señor Izaaks had taken the stone and given him money for it. A military court was ordered to try him, but it was puzzled to know what to do with him.
Truly, here was a pickle! The confession of the accused man had enabled the police to secure the diamond, which they did without any formalities of payment to Señor Izaaks, to his unbounded grief, and the ring being restored to the finger of the statue, and the money being on its way across the sea, and the soldier being entitled to some part of it as back-pay, the court-martial at length resolved to release Miguel Jose from arrest.
There was in the city at that time one Señor Hyman Izaaks, whose business which a cruel law required him to follow in secret was the relief of pecuniary embarrassments, on security, and our soldier went straightway to the office of that philanthropist, arriving breathless but happy. Señor Izaaks advanced a larger sum on the diamond than Jose had dared to hope for.
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