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Updated: June 18, 2025
But, first of all, help our little Joseph Ribas to his uniform and epaulets, that he may be properly costumed for a rescuer and benefactor. And now, away with you! Instruct him well, Stephano. Ah, I should like to be present at this delightful comedy!" And Count Orloff broke out into a hearty laugh.
Their instinct had not told them it was poisoned, and therefore they now lay stiff and cold near the food that had destroyed them. No, from those hounds he had nothing more to fear, this bold, audacious man; the hounds will no more betray him, nor warningly announce that Joseph Ribas, the venturesome thief and galley-slave, is lurking about the house to steal or murder, as the case may be.
With a knavish smile, Joseph Ribas conceals the brilliants in his bosom, and deposits the money in his capacious pockets. "It is a pity that this is not mine," he muttered with a grin, "but toward this count I must act as an honorable thief, and I have promised to bring it all truly to him." The work is completed, the malicious criminal act is performed.
Bolivar joined some patriots in Curacao, where he remained until October in the company of his relative and loyal friend, Jose Felix Ribas. He then sailed for Cartagena, a city of New Granada which at that time was free from Spain, and offered his service to the Republican government of that city. Bolivar was made colonel under a Frenchman called Pedro Labatut.
"You will have first to authenticate your assertions!" responded Stephano, with a rude laugh. "Here is the documental authentication!" said Joseph Ribas, handing a paper to Stephano. The latter, after attentively reading the documents, bowed reverentially, and said: "Sir, it appears that I was certainly mistaken.
In an effort to take advantage of his favorable position by swift movements, Boves advanced to a city called La Victoria, on the road from Valencia to Caracas, where Ribas was ready to do his utmost to prevent the triumph of the bloodthirsty llaneros.
It has fallen to the Russian crown as the property of the traitor Rasczinsky." "There is only the one error to be corrected," said Joseph Ribas, "that this villa was not the property of Count Rasczinsky, as he some months ago sold it to his friend, my master. And as, so far as I know, the illustrious count, my master, never was a traitor, you will please to respect his property!"
Among other things Ribas found a branding iron in the shape of a P, with which Rosete had intended to mark the foreheads of the patriots and those of their children.
"Yes, his name," said Natalie, with a charming smile. "Ah, how I shall love that name!" "His name is his own secret," said Ribas. "The world, indeed, knows and blesses him, calling him the bravest of the brave. But it is his command that you shall never be informed of it.
I bring the money and the diamonds, and at the same time have effectually opened a vein for this troublesome protector! Ah, it seems to me I have very successfully put in practice my studies in the high-school of the galleys!" And, humming a jovial song, Joseph Ribas swung himself into a tree close to the wall, and let himself down on the other side.
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