14/21 And the young Englishman ?" "The presuming barbarian! As I before told thee, let him bleed for his folly. I will have no rival." "But an Englishman! There is always a search after the bodies of the English." "Fool! is not the sea deep enough, or the earth secret enough, to hide one dead man? Robbers murder him, you understand,--the country swarms with them; plunder and strip him, the better to favour such report. Take three men; the rest shall be my escort." Mascari shrugged his shoulders, and bowed submissively. |