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She dipped her flag to
them, and from her poop a gun fired a salute.
Aboard the Cinco Llagas some one - it proved afterwards to be
Hagthorpe - had the wit to reply in the same fashion. The comedy
was ended. Yet there was something else to follow as an epilogue,
a thing that added a grim ironic flavour to the whole.
As they stepped into the waist of the Cinco Llagas, Hagthorpe
advanced to receive them. Blood observed the set, almost scared
expression on his face.
"I see that you've found it," he said quietly.
Hagthorpe's eyes looked a question. But his mind dismissed whatever
thought it held.
"Don Diego..." he was beginning, and then stopped, and looked
curiously at Blood.
Noting the pause and the look, Esteban bounded forward, his face
livid.
"Have you broken faith, you curs? Has he come to harm?" he cried
- and the six Spaniards behind him grew clamorous with furious
questionings.
"We do not break faith," said Hagthorpe firmly, so firmly that he
quieted them. "And in this case there was not the need.


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