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Updated: June 8, 2025
"If you come a penitent, then has my prayer been heard." "A penitent!" cried Affonso Henriques. He laughed wickedly, and plucked his dagger from its sheath. Sancho Nunes, in terror, set a detaining hand upon his prince's arm. "My lord," he cried in a voice that shook, "you will not strike the Lord's anointed that were to destroy yourself for ever."
My Kaffir showed my strapped elbows and feet, and tugged at the cords to prove their tightness. 'Keep him well, said Henriques, 'or you will answer to Inkulu. Forward with him now and get him through the water. Then he turned and rode back. My warder, apparently obeying orders, led me out of the column and into the bush on the right hand.
The Infante's voice was so cold, his mien so resolute that the legate despaired of conquering his purpose. Abruptly he capitulated, even as the halters went about the necks of his two cherished lads. "Stop!" he screamed. "Bid them stop! The curse shall be lifted." Affonso Henriques opened the window with a leisureliness which to the legate seemed to belong to the realm of nightmare.
A great house of the Canon Regular of St. Augustine had been founded at Coimbra by Dom Affonso Henriques for his friend São Theotonio in 1131. But with the passage of centuries the church and monastic building of Sta. Cruz had become dilapidated, and were no longer deemed worthy of so wealthy and important a body.
But though stirred by his affection for the prince to whom he owed so much, though knowing in his inmost heart that Affonso Henriques was in the right, the Bishop of Coimbra did not swerve from his duty to Rome, which was as plain as it was unpalatable.
Ask Machudi's men and they will tell you that I came quietly with them, when I saw that the game was up. He shrugged his shoulders. 'It matters very little what you did. You are here now. Tie him up and put him in my kya, he said to the bodyguard. 'I have something to say to him before he dies. As the men laid hands on me, I saw the exultant grin on Henriques' face.
He had every reason to believe that I was in the greatest danger, and he felt a certain responsibility for my fate. With the few men at his disposal he could not hope to hold up the great Kaffir army, but there was a chance that he might by a bold stand effect my rescue. Henriques had told him of the vow, and had told him that Laputa would ride in the centre of the force.
But the distance being considerable, and means of travel inadequate and slow, it was not until Don Zuleyman had presided in the See of Coimbra for a full two months that the Papal Legate made his appearance in Affonso Henriques' capital.
I read 'Henricus de Letaba transeunda apud Duprei vada jam nos certiores fecit. I had guessed rightly. Henriques was a traitor to the cause he had espoused. Arcoll's message had given me new heart, but Wardlaw's gave me information of tremendous value. I repented that I had ever underrated the schoolmaster's sense. He did not come out of Aberdeen for nothing.
'If any try to stop us, we shall tie them hand and foot, and carry them with us. Their fate will be worse than if they had been slain in battle. 'I see, said Henriques, whistling through his teeth. 'Well, before we start this vow business, I think I'll go back and settle that storekeeper. Laputa shook his head. 'Will you be serious and hear me? We have no time to knife harmless fools.
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