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From post to post the signal along the border flies And the tocsin sounds its summons and the startled burghers rise, While in Baeza every bell Does the appalling tidings tell, "Arm! Arm!" Rings on the night the loud alarm.
The little speech was spoken with great rapidity and with deep feeling; and, having delivered it, Ramon seated himself on the side of the table opposite to Hillyard and Baeza and waited. "It is about Pontiana Tabor," said Hillyard. "He is making a mistake?" "No, señor; he is lying," and he used the phrase which has no exact equivalent in the English. "He is a sin verguenza."
In company with him, but following as a rear-guard, was Don Garcia Osorio, the belligerent bishop of Jaen, attended by Francisco Bovadillo, the corregidor of his city, and followed by two squadrons of men-at-arms from Jaen, Anduxar, Ubeda, and Baeza.* The success of last year's campaign had given the good bishop an inclination for warlike affairs, and he had once more buckled on his cuirass.
Lopez Baeza nodded. "Why not talk with Ramon Castillo yourself?" he asked. "That is what I want to do." "I will arrange for it. When?" "To-night," said Hillyard. Lopez Baeza lifted his hands in deprecation. "Yes. I can take you to his house now. But, señor, Ramon is a poor man. He lives in a little narrow street." Hillyard looked quietly at Lopez Baeza.
But he did not move outside the narrow limits of his promenade. Consequently he had something to do. "Yes," continued Baeza with a chuckle, "he is a proof of our initiative. I thought as you do three days ago. For it is just three days since he took his stand there. But he is not watching this flat. He is not concerned with us at all. He is an undertaker's tout.
"We might catch him perhaps on the rebound!" Hillyard suggested. "Lopez thinks so," said Fairbairn, with a nod towards Baeza. "I can find him this evening," Baeza remarked. The three men conferred for a little while, and as a consequence of that conference Lopez Baeza walked through the narrow streets of the old town to a café near the railway station.
And Jaen's proud hidalgos, Andujar's yeomen true, And the lords of towered Ubeda the pagan foes pursue; And valiantly they meet the foe nor turn their backs in flight, And worthy do they show themselves of their fathers' deeds of might, While in Baeza every bell Does the appalling tidings tell, "Arm! Arm!" Rings on the night the loud alarm.
Boabdil was informed by his spies of the intention of the Christian king, and prepared to make a desperate defence. Hernando de Baeza, a Christian who resided with the royal family in the Alhambra as interpreter, gives in a manuscript memoir an account of the parting of Boabdil from his family as he went forth to battle.
"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must know, then, that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born."
"The theatres are closed, the gay people have gone to St. Sebastian, the families to the seaside. Ouf, but it is hot." "Yes." Hillyard dropped his voice to a whisper and returned to the subject of his thoughts. "You see, my friend, it is of so much importance that we should make no mistake here." "Claro!" returned Lopez Baeza. "But listen to me, señor.
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