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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER IX
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One word more.
This visit should be well feed, the medicine is costly.' 'Fear not, physician,' the monk answered with a note of scorn in his voice; 'name your sum, it shall be paid to you.' 'I ask no money, father.

Indeed I would pay much to be far away to-night.

I ask only that I may be allowed to speak with this girl before she dies.' 'What!' he said, starting, 'surely you are not that wicked man?
If so, you are bold indeed to risk the sharing of her fate.' 'No, father, I am not that man.

I never saw Isabella de Siguenza except once, and I have never spoken to her.

I am not the man who tricked her but I know him; he is named Juan de Garcia.' 'Ah!' he said quickly, 'she would never tell his real name, even under threat of torture.


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