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"If we don't," said I grimly, "it will be because the son has followed the father. And that reminds me, do you think Montilla knows what actually happened to my father? It always seemed strange to me that Rosa should learn of that affair so quickly." "You don't suspect " "That he had a hand in his death? No, hardly that, though he is mean-spirited enough for it.
Miller is frantic; all your friends in Lima are in despair." "Do you know anything of Don Felipe Montilla?" I asked. "Montilla? No; there is a mystery about him too. It is given out that he was abducted by brigands, but some people whisper another story." "What?" "That he fled to the Royalists, my boy, as I prophesied he would." "Then you were a false prophet."
His courage had broken down completely, and to all the questions put by his self-appointed judge he answered no word. At length Sorillo asked his officers for their verdict, and with one consent they pronounced him "Guilty!" "It is a true verdict," exclaimed Sorillo; "any other would be a lie. And now, Felipe Montilla, listen to me for the last time.
You must know, my son, that there lived in this city the most famous witch in the world, called Camacha de Montilla. She was so perfect in her art, that the Erichtheas, Circes, and Medeas, of whom old histories, I am told, are full, were not to be compared to her.
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