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Updated: June 11, 2025
Febrer nodded his head. Yes, he recognized the weapon; it was the one he had brought from Iviza. "Well, with this," continued the boy, "not a brave will dare to face us. The Ironworker? He is a fraud! The Minstrel and all the rest? Frauds also. I'm only waiting for a chance to use this! Anybody who attempts anything against you is sentenced to death."
To let off steam, to get his hand in, and to give a sample of his future temper, he gave him a few blows and kicks, getting even in this way for the wrath he had felt when he saw the boy appear as a fugitive from Iviza.
He wished to be a farmer like his father and grandfathers, but Pèp had determined that the boy should enter the Seminary at Iviza since he was clever at his letters. His lands he would hold for some good hard-working youth who might marry Margalida.
"You are Spanish, and, moreover, a Spaniard from the kingdom of Valencia, as I perceive by your accent." "Would you punish me, sir, because nature has endowed me with the gift of languages? I learn with facility the dialects of those countries through which I pass in the exercise of my trade; I have learnt, for example, the dialect of Iviza." "Very well, you shall be taken at your word.
While listening to him Febrer recalled his visit to the elevated city, the Royal Fortress of Iviza, a dead town, separated from the district of Marina by a great wall, built in the time of Philip II, with its cracks now filled with waving green caper bushes. Headless Roman statues, set in three niches, decorated the gate, which opened from the city to the suburb.
"Don't tell anyone that I am going away," added Jaime. "No one must know it but you and Pablo. You are right; he is a friend." "And when are you leaving?" "On the first steamer for Iviza." Jaime still had something left there; a pile of rocks covered with thickets and full of rabbits; a crumbling tower belonging to the time of the pirates.
M. Biot quitted me afterwards to return to Paris, whilst I made the geodesical junction of the island of Majorca to Iviza, and to Formentera, obtaining thus, by means of one single triangle, the measure of an arc of parallel of one degree and a half. I then went to Majorca, to measure there the latitude and the azimuth.
"You will really ask Señor Pèp for it for my grandfather's knife?" "Yes, you shall have it," said Jaime. "Or if your father will not give it to you I will buy you the best one I can find in Iviza." The boy rubbed his hands, his eyes glowing with savage joy. "Having that will make a man of you," continued Febrer, "but you must not use it! Just a decoration, nothing else."
Even this did not tell much, because on that little island there were but six or seven surnames, and Arabi was borne by a fourth part of the inhabitants. He would explain more clearly Pèp of Can Mallorquí. Febrer smiled. Ah, Can Mallorquí! A poor predio in Iviza, a farm where he had passed a year when he was a boy, his sole inheritance from his mother.
Tío Ventolera remembered the stories his father used to tell of the days when Iviza produced corsairs, and when captured vessels were brought into port with captive Moors, both men and and women.
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