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But," he added, "I am interested in this person whom you believe to be a friend of the fugitive. Cannot you tell me who he is?" I shook my head, and smiling replied: "I have only come here to tell you of a very distinct suspicion I entertain that Despujol is at Montauban." "Then his friend is your enemy eh?" he suggested, his dark, penetrating eyes fixed upon mine.
Despujol managed to work himself into something like a passion over this alleged disrespect to the Pope, and ordered Rizal to be taken as a prisoner to Fort Santiago by the nephew who acted as his aide. Like most facts, this version runs a middle course between the extreme stories which have been current.
I believed that De Gex might communicate with Moroni, now that the plot of Despujol had failed. "I will watch, señor," was the grey-haired Spaniard's reply. "If Señor Suzor sends any telegram I shall probably obtain a copy of it. They know me well at the chief telegraph office.
Fortunately he had been detained in his office, and I was shown into his presence. He seemed surprised to see me, but at once he became interested when I said: "I have a distinct suspicion that I know the whereabouts of Despujol." "Have you?" he exclaimed quickly. "What causes you to suspect?"
"Who is he?" asked Rivero, much puzzled. "Wait and you will see," I replied, laughing, for we now seemed to be within an ace of success. Just before midday we watched the arrival of the train from Montauban, and from it there descended the man we expected the notorious Despujol. Though his features were unmistakable he was made up to look much older, his hair being made grey above the ears.
That's just it," replied the dark-eyed detective, whose chagrin was so apparent that Despujol had slipped through his fingers. "The game was not worth the candle. So he returned after proving to you his bona fides. And these bona fides he always carries in order to extricate himself from any ugly situation." "But the carpet pins?" asked the hotel manager.
Here was a labor "eminently humanitarian," to quote Rizal's words of his own profession, and it made so strong an appeal to him that, through the new governor-general, for Despujol had been replaced by Blanco, he volunteered his services. The minister of war of that time, General Azcarraga, was Philippine born.
Another enlightening feature is the copy of a later letter, preserved in that invaluable secret file, wherein Despujol writes Rizal's custodian, as jailer, to allow the exile in no circumstances to see this number of the Gazette or to know its contents, and suggests several evasions to assist the subordinate's power of invention.
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