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Camber," I said, "but can you tell me in what way these two are related?" She looked up with her naive smile. "I can tell you, yes. A cousin of Senor Menendez married a sister of Madame de Staemer." "Good heavens!" I exclaimed, "a very remote kinship."
There Ribault, who had returned and joined Laudonnière, attempted to attack the Spaniards. But a hurricane scattered his ships, and while it was still raging, Menendez fell suddenly on Fort Caroline and massacred men, women, and children. A few days later, falling in with Ribault and his men, who had been driven ashore south of St. Augustine, Menendez massacred 150 more.
"I have realized, Colonel Menendez," he replied, "that something is pending." "Ah!" murmured the Colonel, and he clutched the edge of the table with his strong brown hands. "But," continued my friend, "I have realized something more. You have asked for my aid, and I am here. Now you have deliberately tied my hands." "What do you mean, sir?" asked the other, softly. "I will speak plainly.
But since I have lived much in the East, I am prepared to learn that Voodoo may not be a negligible quantity. There are forces at work in India which we in England improperly understand. The same may be true of Cuba." "The same is true of Cuba." Colonel Menendez glared almost fiercely across the room at Paul Harley.
The old Profesor and his daughter were waiting for her; shy, kindly, earnest, less traveled than the Menéndez', with a covered carriage which looked as if it might be a relic of the days of Maximilian.
Colonel Menendez lay on his face, and the line made by his recumbent body pointed almost directly toward " I nodded, watching him. "I know, Harley toward the Guest House." Paul Harley inclined his head, grimly. "The first light which we saw," he continued, "was in a window of the Guest House. It may have had no significance.
St. Augustine was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who was then Governor of Florida. Here he built a wooden fort which was afterward replaced by the massive edifice which still exists. St. Augustine needed defenses, for she passed through long periods of war, and many battles were fought for her possession.
Menendez, it is affirmed, hanged his prisoners on trees, and placed over them the inscription, "I do this, not as to Frenchmen, but as to Lutherans." The Spaniards gained a great booty in armor, clothing, and provisions.
That Colonel Menendez, at the moment when the bullet entered his brain, must have been standing facing directly toward the Guest House. Now, you have seen the direction of the wound?" "He was shot squarely between the eyes. A piece of wonderful marksmanship." "Quite," Harley nodded his head. "But the bullet came out just at the vertex of the spine."
One of the French captains, relying on the speed of his ship, had followed Menendez down the coast. He saw what was going on at St. Augustine and hastened back to report to Ribaut that the Spaniards were there in force and were throwing up fortifications. A brilliant idea came to the French commander. His dispersed ships had returned to their anchorage.
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