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"Don't be a coward! Be brave! Be British!"

Struggling, shouting, protesting and appealing frantically, his face

livid and the sweat of fear pouring down it, Standish was dragged

towards the stake

"The burning irons first, I think," snarled Cojuelo "The burns will

make the lash more effective afterwards"

Theiron, the end

of which was red-hot, andht in a trap

"Don't! Don't!" he shrieked in a frenzy of terror "Oh, spare ive her up I--I can't face it You can have her!"

"Do you still accuse Don Carlos of having lied?" demanded Cojuelo

re to escape with

him, or by his aid, and leave the señorita?"

"Yes, yes, it is true," gasped Standish "I lied to Myra to try to--to

save o!

Let o!"

"You hear, señorita?" exclai out

triumphantly "To save his own skin, your lover has renounced you

Release the brave Englishman, my friends The farce is over"