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"The true Allah protect thee, Lady, and that blessed Marien who is the

true o to the land

of the Christians, because she loves thee Entreat her that she be

pleased to show thee how thou canst execute the cooodness On my own part, and on that of all

these Christians who are with me, I promise to do all that we can for

thee, even to death Fail not to write to me and inform me what thou dost

reat Allah has given

us a Christian captive who can speak and write thy language well, as thou

mayest see by this paper; without fear, therefore, thou canst inform us

of all thou wouldst As to what thou sayest, that if thou dost reach the

land of the Christians thou wilt be ood Christian; and know that the Christians keep their promises

better than the Moors Allah and Marien hiswritten and folded I waited two days until the bano was

empty as before, and immediately repaired to the usual walk on the

terrace to see if there were any sign of the reed, which was not long in

h I could not

distinguish who put it out, I showed the paper as a sign to attach the

thread, but it was already fixed to the reed, and to it I tied the paper;

and shortly afterwards our star onceof peace, the little bundle It was dropped, and I picked it

up, and found in the cloth, in gold and silver coins of all sorts, thened our joy and

doubled our hope of gaining our liberty That very night our renegade