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Updated: June 13, 2025
The first morning the counts sent their escorts ahead, and, left alone with their wives, stripped them of their garments, beat them and kicked them, and left them for dead. But Felez Muñoz, a loyal follower of the Cid's, riding back, found the two wives, bound up their wounds and obtained shelter for them in the house of a poor man whose wife and daughters promised to nurse them.
Go with them even unto Carrion, and see the possessions which are given them, and come back with tidings thereof And Felez Munoz said that he would do this.
"But oh, my friend one thing!" she whispered, when she had a little regained her self-possession. "I must ask Muñoz." "Your grandfather? Yes." "But what if he refuses?" she added, looking anxiously in his eyes. She was beginning to lay her troubles on his shoulders, as if he were already her husband. "I will try to please him," replied the young fellow, gazing with almost equal anxiety at her.
"My news is a month later. It came overland by special messenger. Listen to me, Carlos. This affair is worse than you know. Do you know what Muñoz has done? Oh, the pig! the dog! the villainous pig! He has left everything to his granddaughter." Coronado, dumb with astonishment and dismay, mechanically slapped his boot with his cane and stared at Garcia. "I am ruined," cried the old man.
Pero Sanchez hath told you that the dames were dead, as he believed them to be; but we, Sir, know that they are yet alive, having been grievously hurt and wounded with bridles and spurs, and stript of their garments, ... in which plight Felez Munoz found them. Certes such a thing as this cannot please God in heaven, and ought to offend you who are Lord here in your own realm.
One made by the late historian Munoz, and the other made in 1826, and signed by Don Jose de la Higuera y Lara, keeper of the general archives of the Indies in Seville. In the course of this testimony, the fact that Amerigo Vespucci accompanied Ojeda in this voyage of 1499, appears manifest, first from the deposition of Ojeda himself.
He was about to leave her when a new and terrible thought struck him, and made him look at her as though they were about to part forever. "If Muñoz leaves you his fortune," he said firmly, "you shall be free." She stared; after a moment she burst into a little laugh; then she shook her finger in his face and said, blushing, "Yes, free to be your wife."
Alvar Fanez Minaya, and Pero Bermudez, and Martin Munoz, and Martin Antolinez that worthy Burgalese, and the Bishop Don Hieronymo that good one with the shaven crown, and Alvar Alvarez, and Alvar Salvadores, and Muno Gustios that knight of prowess, and Galind Garcia of Aragon; all these and all the others made ready to go with the Cid.
He was afraid that he would lose Clara; afraid that his plottings had been brought to light, and that he would be punished; afraid that his uncle would die and thus deprive him of all chance of succeeding to any part of the estate of Muñoz. Garcia had been brought ashore apparently at his last gasp, and he had not yet come out of his insensibility.
He had already decided what he would do with the Muñoz fortune when he should get it. New York, with its adjuncts of Saratoga and Newport, was to him what Paris is to many Americans. In his imagination it was the height of grandeur and happiness to have a box at the opera, to lounge in Broadway, and to dance at the hops of the Saratoga hotels.
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