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"I cannot think of a plan, senor, for our going to Spain, nor has Lela

Marien shown h I have asked her All that can be done is for

old from thisWith it ransoo to the land of the

Christians, and there buy a vessel and coarden, which is at the Babazon gate near the

seashore, where I shall be all this summer with my father and ht without any danger,

and bring me to the vessel And remember thou art to be my husband, else

I will pray to Marien to punish thee If thou canst not trust anyone to

go for the vessel, ransoo, for I know thou wilt

return entleman and a

Christian Endeavour to arden; and when

I see thee walking yonder I shall know that the bano is eive thee abundance of money Allah protect thee, senor"

These were the words and contents of the second paper, and on hearing

the to be the ransoood faith; and I too ade objected, saying that he would not on

any account consent to one being set free before all went together, as

experience had taught him how ill those who have been set free keep

promises which they made in captivity; for captives of distinction

frequently had recourse to this plan, paying the ransoo to Valencia or Majorca with money to enable him to arm a bark and

return for the others who had ransomed him, but who never caain efface froations in the world And to prove the truth of what he said,

he told us briefly what had happened to a certain Christian gentleest case that had ever occurred even

there, where astonishing andevery

instant In short, he ended by saying that what could and ought to be

done was to give the money intended for the ransoht with it buy a vessel there in Algiers

under the pretence of beco

the coast; and when master of the vessel, it would be easy for hi us all out of the bano and putting us on board;