"Only a giver can do that." Pedro Gutierrez turned black eyes upon Juan Lepe, whom he resented there on the poop deck.

"How could you have learned so much, Doctor, while you were making sail and washing ship ?" He was my younger in every way, and I answered equably, "I learned in the same way that the Admiral learned while he begged." "Touched!" said Diego de Arana.

"So that is the way the prior came into the business ?" "He enters with such vigor," said Gutierrez, "that what does he do but write an impassioned letter to the Queen, having long ago, for a time, been her confessor?
What he tells her, God knows, but it seems that it changes the world! She answers that for herself she hath grieved for Master Columbus's departure from the court and the realm, and that if he will turn and come to Santa Fe, his propositions shall at last be thoroughly weighed.

Letter finds the beggar with his boy honored guest of La Rabida, touching heads with Martin Pinzon over maps and charts and the 'Book of Travels' of Messer Marco Polo.

There is great joy! The beggar hath the prior's own mule and his son a jennet, and here we go to Santa Fe! That was last year.