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Updated: June 29, 2025
General Primo de Rivero brought with him the proclamation of the abolition of slavery and Article I of the Constitution of 1869, whereby the inhabitants of the island were recognized as Spaniards. Great popular rejoicings followed these proclamations. In San Juan processions paraded the streets amid "vivas" to Spain, to the Republic, and to Liberty.
"Certain clues came into the hands of the police, and by these Señor Rivero was able to trace the fugitive to Denia, not far from Valencia. He was hiding in a small cottage in an orange-grove just outside the town.
In order to confirm my suspicions, I at once telegraphed to Señor Rivero in Madrid, urging him to send me a copy of the police photograph of Sanz for identification purposes. That same day I received a reply which informed me that the photograph was in the post, hence I remained in Amsterdam awaiting its arrival.
Afterwards he had come south again to Luton, in Bedfordshire, where all trace of him had been lost. "Well," laughed Rivero triumphantly, "we shall take good care not to lose him now!" "No," said the Commissary of Police. "My men will be armed, and will take him, alive or dead!" "And De Gex and Moroni will then instantly flee!"
"Ah!" exclaimed Rivero. "Despujol would not risk the train. He always arranges a secret means of escape. In this case he prepared it on the day before. Without a doubt he knew that watch was being kept." "Or was it that De Gex knew that I was here?" I suggested.
"As he spoke of his late partner, and of his daughter, tears came to his eyes," said the Spanish lawyer, speaking in French. Tears in the eyes of Oswald De Gex! I smiled at the thought. As for Rivero he now became just as puzzled as I was myself.
"Yes," remarked Rivero. "The plot was very cunningly conceived, especially the manner in which you were entrapped and induced to give the certificate." "Here is the money which De Gex gave me for my share in the crime," I said openly, laying the bank notes upon the Superintendent's table.
The Commissary pressed an electric button, whereupon his secretary appeared. In a few rapid sentences the tall, elegant French official gave orders, and the secretary retired at once to execute them. "Despujol is a desperate character. He is always armed, and possesses abnormal strength. He could strangle his strongest opponent," Rivero remarked.
"Did I not tell you that De Gex is as friendly with Sanz as he was with Despujol?" "I know. But in face of other facts I have learnt, the problem presented is an amazing one." As he spoke a tap came upon the door, and a page-boy handed in a card. "Show the gentleman up," Rivero said in his broken English. "Here is someone who will relate some very strange facts.
Then you hold some secret of his, perhaps?" asked Rivero, a new interest being instantly aroused. "I do one that I intend to expose when I obtain sufficient corroborative evidence," I answered with determination. "But is not the fact of the three men meeting here in secret under assumed names sufficient proof to you that some fresh plot is afoot?" "Certainly it is," Rivero agreed.
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