The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
"Are you a Protestant"
He howed


On that 1 fell to considering him
with more attention, but at the same
time with some distrust rejecting
that he was a Spaniard, and recalling
the numberless plots against his mai
esty of which that nation had. been
guilty. Still. if his tale were true he
deserved support; with a. view there
fore to testing this l questioned him
farther and learned that he had for
a long time disguised his opinions, I'M
til, opening them in an easy moment
to a fellow servant, he found himself
upon the first occasion of quarrel be-
trayed to the fathers. After suffering
much, and giving himself up for lost
in the dungeons, he made his escape
in a manner sufficiently remarkable
if I might believe his story. In the
prison with him lay a Moor, for whose
exchange against a Christian taken by
the Sallee pirates an order came down.
1t arrived in the evening; the Moor
was to be removed in the morning.
An hour after the arrival of the news,
however, and when the two had just
been locked up for the night, the Moor
overcome with excess of joy suddenly
expired. AT first the Spaniard was for
giving the alarm; but, being an in
genious fellow, in a few minutes he
summoned all his wits together and
his face and hands with charcoal he
changed clothes with the corpse, and
muffiing himself up after the fashion
of the Moors in a cold climate, he sue
ceeded in the early morning in passing
out in his place. Those who had
charge of him had no reason to expect
an escape, and once on the road, he
had little difficulty in getting away,
and eventually reached France after
a SironecSiOr1 Of N l-l.OxU cha
All this the man told me so simply
that 1 knew not which to admire more,
the daring of his device-since for a
white man 20 pass for a brown is be-
yond the common scope of such dis
cc-.,is-as-or his present modesty in re-
lating it. However, neither of these
things seemed to my mind a good rea-
son for disbelief AS to the one, 1 con-
sidered that an imposter would have
put forward something more simple;
and as to the other, I have all my life
long observed that those who have
strange experiences tell them in a
very ordinary way Besides, [ had
fresh in my mind the diverting escape
of the Duke of NemOurS from Lyons,
which I have elsewhere related. On
the other hand, and despite all these
things, the story might be false; so
with view of testing one part of it,
a
that afternoon.
my lord" he said bluntly, 81 had
rather not. For if 1 defeat your ex-
cellency 1 may defeat also your good
intentions. And if I permit you to win
1 shall seem to be an impostor."
Somewhat surprised by his fore
thought, treasured him on this point,
and his game. which proved to be one
of remarkable strength and finesse, and
fairly on an equality. as it seemed to
me, with that of the best French play
ers. persuaded me that at any rate the
first part Of his tale was true. Accord
ingly, / made him a present and. in
addition, bade Maignan pay him a
small allowance for a while. For this
he showed his gratitude by attaching
himself to my household, and as it was
the fashion at that time to keep tennis
masters of this class, found it occa-
sionally amusing to pit him against
other well-known players. In the course
of few weeks he gained me great
credit, and though I am not so foolish
as to attach Importance to such trifles,
but, on the contrary, think an old SOL