25/28 I make it that he was only to use this if after long examination it was found by a wise, just man that I had done after my enemies' hopes. I make it that here across Ocean-Sea, far, far from Spain, he chose not to wait. He clucked to him all the disaffected and flew with a strong beak at the eyes of my friends." He moved his arms and his chains clanked. "I make it that this severity is Don Francisco de Bobadilla's, not King Ferdinand's, not--oh, more than not--the good Queen's!" Juan Lepe thought that he had made out the probabilities, probably the certainties. "It all hinges on that! If I may see the Sovereigns--if I may see the good Queen! I hope to God he will soon chain me in a ship and send me!" Had he seen Don Francisco de Bobadilla? |