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As it chanced, a large Spanish carak named 'Las Cinque Llagas, or 'The Five Wounds, was about to sail for Hispaniola, and having obtained a licence to trade, I took passage in her under my assumed name of d'Aila, passing myself off as a merchant.
'It is false, I answered; 'I am no spy, and I am come to these seas for one purpose only to find you. 'Then you have succeeded well, too well for your own comfort, perhaps. Say now, do you deny that you are Thomas Wingfield and an Englishman? 'I do not deny it. 'Your pardon. How comes it then that, as your companion the priest tells me, you sailed in Las Cinque Llagas under the name of D'AILA?
'Diego d'Aila, I answered. 'Humph, he said. 'A Spanish name, or perhaps an imitation Spanish name, for I do not know it, and I have a good head for names. 'That is my name, to take or to leave, senor? And I looked at him in turn. 'Andres de Fonseca, he replied bowing, 'a physician of this city, well known enough, especially among the fair.
These letters at my request were made out not in my own name but in that of 'Diego d'Aila, for I did not wish it to be known that I was an Englishman.
At length when I was about to sink back into the hold, for I could stand no longer in that cramped posture, I saw a woman's dress pass by the hole in the deck, and knew it for one that was worn by a lady who had escaped with me in the boat. 'Senora, I whispered, 'for the love of God listen to me. It is I, d'Aila, who am chained down here among the slaves.
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