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Don Diego
died in his bonds before ever you reached the Encarnacion."
Peter Blood said nothing.
"Died?" screamed Esteban. "You killed him, you mean. Of what did
he die?"
Hagthorpe looked at the boy. "If I am a judge," he said, "Don Diego
died of fear."
Don Esteban struck Hagthorpe across the face at that, and Hagthorpe
would have struck back, but that Blood got between, whilst his
followers seized the lad.
"Let be," said Blood. "You provoked the boy by your insult to his
father."
"I was not concerned to insult," said Hagthorpe, nursing his cheek.
"It is what has happened. Come and look."
"I have seen," said Blood. "He died before I left the Cinco Llagas.
He was hanging dead in his bonds when I spoke to him before leaving."
"What are you saying?" cried Esteban.
Blood looked at him gravely. Yet for all his gravity he seemed
almost to smile, though without mirth.
"If you had known that, eh?" he asked at last. For a moment Don
Esteban stared at him wide-eyed, incredulous. "I don't believe
you," he said at last.


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