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"And hoas the captain called, senor?" asked the Judge

"He was called Ruy Perez de Viede in the mountains of Leon; and he mentioned a circumstance

connected with his father and his brothers which, had it not been told me

by so truthful a man as he was, I should have set down as one of those

fables the old women tell over the fire in winter; for he said his father

had divided his property a his three sons and had addressed words of

advice to them sounder than any of Cato's But I can say thisto the as attended with such success,

that by his gallant conduct and courage, and without any help save his

own merit, he rose in a few years to be captain of infantry, and to see

hiiven the coainst hiht have

expected her favour he lost it, and with it his liberty, on that glorious

day when so many recovered theirs, at the battle of Lepanto I lost mine

at the Goletta, and after a variety of adventures we found ourselves

coiers, where he met with

one of the most extraordinary adventures that ever befell anyone in the

world"