San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-25

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"If they succeed, II sciu cost your mistress
e27,OOO."
Don Sanchez in bewilderment. Then
getting the face to speak he gasps out,
Twenty seven thousand pounds" and
still in a maze asks, cart thou in thy
right senses, friend?"
The don lunches his shoulders and
turns to me, whereupon 1 set forth in
pretty much the same words as Mr..
Hopkins used the risk of the venture,
ETC., to all which this Simon listened
with starting eyes and gaping mouth.
"Twenty-seven thousand pounds!"
he says again. "Why. friend, tits half
of all have made of the estate by
life of thrift and care and earnest seek
ing"
" IT'S in your power, Simon" says
Don SANCHEZ p, "to spare your mistress
this terrible charge, for which your fine
park must pe felled, your farms cut up
and your economies be scattered The
master here will fetch your mistress
home for 81, 800"
why, even that is an extortion."
May" says Jack, eff you think e1,-
500 too much for my carcass and ship
of 20 men, you may seek cheaper mar
ket and welcome, for I've no stomach to
risk my life and property for less. :"
''To the 81 800 you must add the
ransom of $4,000. Then Mrs Goodwin
and her daughter may be redeemed for
e3, 500 to her sowing of e23, $780," says
the don.
And here Dawson and were secretly
struck by his honesty in not seeking to
alright the steward from an honest
course, but rather tempting him to it
by playing upon his parsimony and ava
rice.
Three thousand five hundred" says
Simon, putting it down in writing, that
he might the better realize his position.
but you say, friend merchant, that
the risk is as seven to one against seeing
thy money again"
81 will run the risk for e27 900 and
no less, " says l.
"But if it may be done for a seventh
part, how them"
why, tits your risk, sir, and not
mine, ;" says L
Yea, yea, my risk. And you tell
me, friend sailor, that you stand in dan
ger of being plundered by these inf
dels "
AYE, more like than not. ."
"Why, then all is lost, and the peril
is to be run again, and thus till all is
lost"
In this manner did Simon halt be-
twixt two ways like one distracted, but
only he did mingle mass of sacred
words with his arguments which seemed
to me naught but profanity, his sole
concern being the gain of money. Then
he falls to the old excuses Don Sanchez
had told us of, saying he had no money
of his own, and Offering to show his
books that we might see he had taken
not one penny beyond his bare expenses
from the estate, save his yearly wage,
and that no more than Sir Thomas had
given him in his lifetime.
And on Don Sanchez showing Mrs.
Godwin's letter as fitting authority tc
| wa" Oub bhAo AlOhOy III AINl uSC llt
first feigns to doubt her hand, and the1
says he: "If an accident befalls these
two women ere they return to justify
me, how shall answer to the next he'll
for this outlay? Verify" clasping his
hands, Il am as one standing in dark
ness, and l dare not move until an
better enlightened. So prithee, friend
give me time to commune with my
conscience. -
Don Sanchez lunches up his shorl
ders and turns to US.
"Why, look here, master &%e 60
son. II can't see that %fgthened
enlightenment to ausID
fair offer, and as ozNbu5bood r,-
if Won 3 tssZSferally respected,
without ~ un&are intelligent
:, 8, IlIlIIlli