[Marse Henry Complete by Henry Watterson]@TWC D-Link bookMarse Henry Complete CHAPTER the Twenty-Ninth 15/16
But you are bound to respect him. There is a mansion in Seville known as The House of Pontius Pilate because part of the remains of the abode of the Roman Governor was brought from Jerusalem and used in a building suited to the dignity of a Spanish grandee who was also a Lord of Tarifa.
The Duke of Medina Celi, its present owner, is a lineal scion of the old piratical crew.
The mansion is filled with the fruits of many a foray.
There are plunder from Naples, where one ancestor was Viceroy, and treasures from the temples of the Aztecs and the Incas, where two other ancestors ruled. Every coping stone and pillar cost some mariner of the Tarifa Straits a pot of money. Its owner is a pauper.
A carekeeper shows it for a peseta a head.
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