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Updated: June 3, 2025
Perhaps Lazuraque had fled like other rich men from the city, but at all events he seems to have permitted dom Fernando to do as he liked till the pestilence had run its course. It was in March 1442 that Fernando was again taken before Lazuraque, and though the prisoner always told himself that he had given up hope, nevertheless his heart beat faster than usual at the summons.
It was hard work for one so weak; still, it gave him something to do and to look forward to, and prevented him, sitting all day in his prison, from wondering why no answer to his letter had ever come, and if his brothers had forgotten him altogether, little knowing that out of mere spite Lazuraque had kept back everything they had written.
But now that the moment had come on which everything depended, his voice seemed choked, and he could not utter a sound. 'Are you deaf? inquired Lazuraque impatiently. 'Be quick, or I shall raise my terms. Then Fernando stammered out, 'Fifty thousand doubloons and fifty Moorish prisoners. 'Nonsense, cried Lazuraque, with a scornful laugh. 'Fifty thousand doubloons for a Portuguese prince!
'He that is dead pays all his debts, writes the poet who more than any man knew the best and the worst of the human heart, but Lazuraque did not agree with him. Fernando's body was stripped bare and hung for four days from the battlements of the city, where, silent and uncomplaining as in life, it was a prey to every insult the people could heap on it.
It seems curious that king Abdallah did not insist on better treatment for the Portuguese prince, but he was afraid of Lazuraque, who had ruled the kingdom from Abdallah's childhood, and dared not interfere.
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