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"Can you give me directions how to find the place?" "Certainly, senor. I will write it down, if the senor will permit me the use of his writing-case." Ishmael placed a chair at the table, and signed for the steward to take it. Miguel Manello sat down, wrote out the directions, handed them to Ishmael, and then with a deep bow took his leave.
According to instructions left with the waiters they were immediately shown up to the apartments of Judge Merlin. Miguel Manello, a little, dried-up, mahogany-colored old man with blue-gray hair, came in, bowing profoundly. Sally followed him, but suddenly stopped, opened her mouth and eyes as wide as they could be extended, and stood dumb with astonishment.
But Katie rebelled, and protested that she would not leave her old master until bedtime, when she should insist upon his locking her in her bedroom and taking charge of the key, for fear she should be bewitched and stolen again. At about six o'clock Miguel Manello arrived, having Sally in charge.
Ishmael then delicately referred to their wish to purchase the girl Sally. The senora promptly assented to the implied desire. "It was my steward, Miguel Manello, who bought her for me. I did not particularly want her. And I find her of very little use to me. She cannot understand one word that is said to her.
When they had retired he beckoned the steward to approach. Miguel Manello advanced with a series of genuflexions, and laid upon the table a document which proved to be a bill of sale for the girl, Sally. "The senor will perceive," he said, "that I paid the trader twelve hundred dollars for the negress.
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