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Updated: June 18, 2025
There was no doubt that Nikola had committed these crimes; that the witnesses had sworn to them and signed the deposition.... The old judge had evidently never seen him, and now O'Brien and the Lugareño had sworn that I was Nikola el Escoces, alias El Demonio. My first impulse was to shout with rage; but I checked it because I knew I should be silenced. I said: "I am not Nikola el Escoces.
As for him, he dared not kill me and he dared not give me up to the admiral. In his suspense, since, for him, I was the only person in the world who knew Seraphina's fate, he dared not let me out of his grip. And all the while he had me he must keep the admiral there, waiting for the surrender either of myself or of some other poor devil whom he might palm off as Nikola el Escoces.
I began a long wrangle about being John Kemp but not Nikola el Escoces. I was going to fight every inch of the way. They said: "You will have your say afterwards. At present, guilty or not guilty?" I refused to plead at all; I was not the man. The third judge woke up, and said hurriedly: "That is a plea of not guilty, enter it as such." Then he went to sleep again.
Nichols waved his shadowy hand towards Salazar's scarf. Salazar moved off a little. "I see the advantages," he said. "No crying out, because of the blood in the lungs. I thank yous Señor Escoces." Nichols rose, lurching to his full height, and looked in my direction. I closed my eyes. I did not wish him to talk to me. I heard him say: "Well, hasta mas ver. I shall get away from here. Good-night."
If it didn't end in a knife in the back, he might keep me for ages in Havana; or he might get me sent to England, where it would take months, an endless time, to prove merely that I wasn't Nikola el Escoces. I should prove it; but, in the meantime, what would become of Sera-phina? Would she follow me to England? Would she even know that I had gone there? Or would she think me dead and die herself?
It had struck me that the tall, sallow man was undoubtedly the second mate of the Thames. Nicholas, the real Nikola el Escoces! The Cuban grumbled suddenly: "You, Señor, are without doubt one of the spies of that friend of the priests, that O'Brien. Tell him to beware that I bid him beware. I, Don Vincente Salazar de Valdepefias y Forli y..."
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