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"You hurt?" bawled Hernan. The commander paused to catch his breath. He knew there was a sword-slash across his face, and his right leg felt as though there was a cut on it, but otherwise "I'm all right," he said. "How's it going?" "They're breaking," Hernan told him. "We'll have them scattered within minutes." Even as he spoke, the surge of battle moved away from them, toward the forest.
Accidents sometimes happen to men who are not wanted, especially in wild countries or, for the matter of that, to those who are." "Allemachte! Allan, you do not mean that I " "No, mynheer," I interrupted; "but there are other people in the world besides yourself Hernan Pereira, for example, if he lives. Still, I am not the only one concerned in this matter. There is Marie yonder.
"We shall have it down upon us, Don Hernan, before long," he remarked, going up to the captain. "If it catches us with all this canvas spread, some of our masts will go, I fear." "We may hold on yet for some time, I hope," was the answer. "I have not forgotten yet the look of that rocky coast."
If anyone betrayed them it was Hernan Pereira himself, who, as I proved to the General Retief, had been praying Dingaan to kill me, and whom Retief threatened to put upon his trial for this very crime, for which reason and no other Pereira fled from the kraal, taking his tool Henri Marais with him. You have asked God to judge me.
The word was given to shove off the oars were dipped into the water when down from the castle gate rushed Lawrence Brindister, followed closely by Surly Grind. "Ha! ha!" he exclaimed, in a hoarse, angry voice. "Fare-thee-well, cousin Hilda fare-thee-well! though you would leave your kinsman without saying as much to him. And you, Don Hernan, fare-thee-well, too.
"By what wonderful means have you become acquainted with what you have told me?" he asked. "By the simplest of all; by having been told by those who were acquainted with the facts," answered Ronald. "But how were they informed of those facts?" asked the priest, with increased interest. "They learned them from a Spanish naval officer, Pedro Alvarez by name, who was the lieutenant of Don Hernan.
"Come, come, Father Mendez! we were too much together in days gone by for you to have forgotten me any more than I have forgotten you," continued Morton. "I do not wish to annoy you, but I wish you to do an act of justice. The son of your former patron and friend, Don Hernan Escalante, was carried off from his mother's house by the crew of a schooner which suddenly appeared before the place.
His corpse was removed to the great square of the city, where, in obedience to the sentence, the head was severed from the body. A herald proclaimed aloud the nature of the crimes for which he had suffered; and his remains, rolled in their bloody shroud, were borne to the house of his friend Hernan Ponce de Leon, and the next day laid with all due solemnity in the church of Our Lady of Mercy.
"The king charges me to say " began Hernan. "Charges you to say, Mynheer Pereira! Are you then this black man's servant? But continue." "That none must come into his private enclosure armed." "Well, then, mynheer, be pleased to go tell this king that we do not wish to come to his private enclosure.
It contained some for Don Hernan, as well as for other deceased officers of the "Saint Cecilia;" one was for Pedro Alvarez, and several were addressed to Father Mendez, who likewise took possession of all the rest. The lieutenant read his despatch with a great deal of interest.
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