More, I knew your mother, boy, and now I see that it was the likeness in your face to hers that haunted me, for from the first it was familiar.

It was I also who bribed the keepers of the Holy Office to let your father loose, though, as it chanced, I never saw him, and arranged his flight.

Since then, I have had de Garcia through my hands some four or five times, now under this name and now under that.

Once even he came to me as a client, but the villainy that he would have worked was too black for me to touch.

This man is the wickedest whom I have known in Seville, and that is saying much, also he is the cleverest and the most revengeful.