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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Humph!" said Hope, glancing at De Gayangos, "perhaps there is more than one copy of this manuscript you speak of." "Not to my knowledge." "The sailor Vasa might have copied it." "No." Don Pedro shook his head. "It is written in Latin, since a Spanish priest taught the son of Inca Caxas, who wrote it, that language. I do not think that Vasa knew Latin.
Hope ran down to give a hand, and in a few minutes they had the Kanaka ashore, fighting like the demon he was. Random and De Gayangos joined the breathless group, and Cockatoo was held in the grasp of two strong men who required all their strength to hold him while Date, warned by Hope's cry of what was in the case, tore at the lid. It was but lightly fastened and soon came off.
"Great God!" shouted Hope, who was watching the battle, "I believe Braddock is in that damned thing." The next moment De Gayangos was swung overboard also, and the sailors were lifting Hervey into the boat. It nearly upset, but he managed to get in, and the craft rowed for the vessel, which was again showing a flaring blue light.
Random sent a bullet into the midst of the boatload, and immediately the mate fired also. The bullet whistled past his head, and, crazy with rage, he felt inclined to jump in amongst the ruffians and have a hand-to-hand fight. But De Gayangos stopped him in a voice shrill with anger. Already the shouts and noise of the approaching policemen could be heard.
"And how are we to find the jewels?" asked Braddock crossly. "By finding the assassin." "How is that to be done?" asked De Gayangos gloomily. "I have been doing my best at Pierside, but I cannot find a single clue. Vasa is not to be found." "Vasa!" exclaimed Archie and the Professor, both profoundly astonished. Don Pedro raised his eyebrows. "Certainly.
Jasher, "that it would be best to find this sailor." "That," remarked De Gayangos, "is impossible. It is twenty years since he disappeared with the mummy. Let us drop the subject until Professor Braddock returns to discuss it with me." And this was accordingly done.
The translator adduces strong grounds for believing that the battle was fought, not as usually held, in the plain of Xeres, on the south bank of the Guadalete, but "nearer the sea-shore, and not far from the town of Medina-Sidonia." This is not mentioned by the authors from whom Al-Makkari has drawn his materials, but is stated by Professor de Gayangos on the authority of Ibn Khaldun.
"There are the two emeralds which are of immense value, as Don Pedro says, and they belong to me, since the mummy is my property." "Professor," said Archie solemnly, "you must do right, even if you lose by it. I believe the story of Senor De Gayangos; and the mummy with its jewels belongs to him. Besides, you only wish to see the way in which the Inca race embalmed their dead.
As he made no motion of picking it up, Hervey, although annoyed with himself for his politeness towards a yellow-stomach, as he called De Gayangos, was compelled to stretch for it. As he handed it back to Don Pedro, the Peruvian's eyes lighted up and he nodded gravely. "Thank you, Vasa," said De Gayangos, and Hervey, changing color, leaped from his seat as though touched by a spear-point.
"But you forget, Professor, that the emeralds, when found, belong to Don Pedro." "They don't," rasped the little man, turning purple with rage. "I refuse to let him have them. I bought the mummy, and the contents of the mummy, including those emeralds. They are mine." "No," said Random sharply. "I buy the mummy, from you, so they pass into my possession and belong to De Gayangos.
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