Then it vanished!
They wanted the whole man, they wanted the Admiral! The
master roared at them and sent them back, but if it had come
to the worst--I don't know!"
Cadiz--the _Santa Marta_ came to Cadiz. Before us had
arrived Bobadilla's ships, one, two and three. What he found
to say through his messengers of the Admiral and Viceroy
was in the hands and eyes and ears of all. He said at the
height of his voice, across the ocean from Hispaniola, violent
and villainous things.
Cadiz--Spain. We crowded to look.. Down plunged
anchor, down rattled sails, around us came the boats. The
Admiral and the Adelantado rested in chains. The corregidor
of Cadiz took them both thus ashore and to a house
where they were kept, until the Sovereigns should say,
"Bring them before us!"
Juan Lepe the physician was let to go in the boat with
him. Juan Lepe--Jayme de Marchena. It was eight years
since I had quitted Spain. I was older by that, grizzled,
bearded and so bronzed by the Indies that I needed no
Moorish stain. I trusted God that Don Pedro and the Holy
Office had no longer claws for me.
Cadiz, and all the people out, pointing and staring. I remembered
what I had been told of the return from his first
voyage, and the second voyage. Then had been bells and
trumpets, flowers, banners, grandees drawing him among
them, shouts and shouts of welcome!
He walked in gyves, he and the Adelantado, to the house
of his detention.
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