. An archer with Columbus;. No one could perform the mis-sion better. I shall depart this very night, repliedRodriguez. Felix had bade Diego good-by, and wasaccompanying Tortosa to the gate. Heagain offered the archer his crossbow, butTortosa assured him that it was his. Felixthen requested him to keep it for him, lestthe tailor should seize and sell it. Felix had nearly reached Palos before itoccurred to him that he had again forgottento ask for the old cassock. He knew that Ignacio Diaz was very cu- FELIX WINS THE CROSSBOW. 41 rious. With the cunning that tyranny hadtaught him, he resolved t
. An archer with Columbus;. No one could perform the mis-sion better. I shall depart this very night, repliedRodriguez. Felix had bade Diego good-by, and wasaccompanying Tortosa to the gate. Heagain offered the archer his crossbow, butTortosa assured him that it was his. Felixthen requested him to keep it for him, lestthe tailor should seize and sell it. Felix had nearly reached Palos before itoccurred to him that he had again forgottento ask for the old cassock. He knew that Ignacio Diaz was very cu- FELIX WINS THE CROSSBOW. 41 rious. With the cunning that tyranny hadtaught him, he resolved to burst into theshop and overwhehn his master with astarthng and lurid tale of the days adven-tures, and so avoid his ancient enemy thathung on the wall. CHAPTER III. A ROYAL MESSENGER. Two weeks passed without any tidingsfrom the messenger to the Court. IgnacioDiaz had not sent Fehx again to La old cassock, he thought, would furnishan excuse to send him when the pilot hadreturned and the news miglit be But one day Diaz, standing in the doorof his shop, saw Sebastian Rodriguez rideby on a mule and take the road to theconvent. A ROYAL MESSENGER. 43 Felix, cried the tailor, Sefior Eod-rigiiez has returned. He is going to LaEabida. Follow him at once, and find out,if thou canst, the result of this applica-tion to the queen. And — Oh, yes, get theold cassock, do you hear? Felix, very well pleased that the tailorscuriosity was giving him a half-holiday,was soon on his way to the convent. When he arrived, Tortosa informed himthat Fernandez, Pinzon, Eodriguez, FatherJuan Perez, and Columbus w^ere all in ear-nest and excited council together, and thatthe message brought by the pilot seemedto have pleased them all very much. Felix and Tortosa went to the garden,where they found Diego and Perrito. TheSuperiors big cat sat on the top of the wall asusual sunning himself and keeping one eyeon the dog, and the other on a noisy flockof blackbirds in a fig-tree near by.
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