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His meditations continued for close upon ten minutes, then, as George began to manifest symptoms of growing impatience, Senor Montalvo flung up his head with the triumphant air of one who has solved a difficult problem, and said: "It appears to me, Excellency, and most noble Adelantado, that the only thing to be done is for your Excellency to address a letter to the Governor of Panama, explaining the situation, and requesting his help to determine the present whereabouts of the prisoners, entrust that letter to a reliable and intelligent messenger, who fully understands all the circumstances of the case, and let him confer with his Excellency Don Silvio as to the steps necessary to secure the satisfaction of the English senor's demands."
Not well acquainted with Segovia, he had found himself, after more than an hour's wandering instead of, as he expected, again near the Senor's lodgings in the self-same spot whence he had started, and close by the body of his victim.
"If they come in friendship," quickly Torquam replied, "then indeed may all be well. But the ship is not of the Senor's fleet, and if so be that we must fight, thou wert better hidden in the cave. We shall see." Bending her head in mute acquiescence the girl moved away to join the group of women now almost ready to depart.
In her consternation at this fuller realization of the vague catastrophe, Miss Keene still clung to the idea that had brought her there. "But Mrs. Markham has nothing to do with all this?" "Then why does she refuse to give up her secret correspondence with the pirate Perkins?" returned the secretary. Miss Keene hesitated. Had Mrs. Markham any previous knowledge of the Senor's real character?
Bedient caught it with an incredibly quick movement, and took the gun from the Señor's pocket. "Just to reduce tension to a minimum, Señor," he said. The third Chinese opened the door from the galley, but a look and gesture from Bedient sent him back, and the lock was turned upon him. Bedient now placed the gun upon the table, and directed his attention to Framtree.
The voice of the first mate from above here checked his further speech, and, perhaps, prevented him, as he quickly reascended the upper deck, from noticing the slight embarrassment of his prisoner. The Senor's explanations to the mate were evidently explicit and brief. In a few moments he reappeared with the steward and his assistant.
"You think only of yourselves," says the Don, very quietly. "And pray, saving your Señor's presence, who else should we think of?" "The child above," answers the Don, a little more sternly than he had yet spoken. "Is a young creature like that to bear the buffets you are so bold to meet?
The handkerchief the butler restored to me at dinner, after I lost one in the señor's office, might have been either of these, or one of ten other duplicates in my room, all given to me by her Maj I mean," she corrected quickly, "by a friend in Europe." She was silent for a moment. "Is that all?" "No," replied Mr. Grimm gravely, decisively. "I'm not satisfied.
"And how much did the Chino want for it, if I may make bold enough to ask so much of the señor's business?" "Why, he wants a hundred dollars in gold," Hal responded. The Filipino dandy inspected the box critically. "You are right, señor; the price is too high. It could be bought for less, if you knew better how to deal with these smiling yellow heathen."
It is necessary to mention here that the worthy Senor's counting house was in a back building, separated from the house that fronted the street by a narrow court, and in a small closet off this counting house, my quatre had been rigged the previous night, and there had my luggage been deposited.
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