[Montezuma’s Daughter by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMontezuma’s Daughter CHAPTER V 23/24
Be assured of this, Luisa de Garcia, hide where you will, I shall find you, and when we meet, you shall come with me for so long as I will keep you or that shall be the hour of your death." 'Then we sailed away for England, and the boats fell astern. 'My sons, this is the story of my youth, and of how I came to wed your mother whom I have buried to-day.
Juan de Garcia has kept his word.' 'Yet it seems strange,' said my brother, 'that after all these years he should have murdered her thus, whom you say he loved.
Surely even the evilest of men had shrunk from such a deed!' 'There is little that is strange about it,' answered my father.
'How can we know what words were spoken between them before he stabbed her? Doubtless he told of some of them when he cried to Thomas that now they would see what truth there was in prophecies.
What did de Garcia swear years since ?--that she should come with him or he would kill her.
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