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Chapter 2 THE FIRST MOMENTS

Word Count: 1913    |    Released on: 29/11/2017

r Joam Dacosta-for it is more convenient that he should resum

t you know

eplied Manoel, "and that he was sentenced to death twen

you all about

not wish that any part of his past life should be hidden from h

innocence my father

oam Dacosta, who comes forward to say to justice, 'Here am I! I do not care for this false existence any more. I do not care t

e that, you did not hesitate

instant," re

ung fellows closed in a

went up to P

not one, you know that! To-morrow my mother and I will seek out the chief of the police. They will not refuse us permission to visit t

he innocence of her husband. The idea even never occurred to her that Joam Dacosta had been to blame in marrying her under a name which was not his own. She only thought of the li

hter, who could not restrain her tea

ellows found th

"I ought to know all tha

hing to hid

s come on boar

acosta the secret

st of Iquitos, his plan had already been form

as on his way to the fazenda with the idea of consummating a vile

d his whole family were about to pass the fron

is mercy than while within the frontiers of Peru. That is why we found

passage on the raft!" exclaimed

have joined us sooner or later. He was not the man to abandon such a t

the present. An end to useless recriminations! Let us see!" And while speaking, Benito, pa

my father had been sentenced twenty-three ye

"and everything leads me to think

al was the name under whic

dent

, at Iquitos, that for so many y

, "but how he came to kno

he proposition that Torres made to my father durin

rral as being Joam Dacosta, if he

t what

s hand!" answered Manoel unhes

red to do that!"

, Benito, you saw the rep

ft. But it is not enough to have kicked him out. No! That will not do for me. It was

his denun

Torres. I must know how he became master of the secret. He must tell me if he knows the real autho

e to do as well!" added Manoel, mo

l, no, to

Manoel. "The right of demanding a

dently on that subject hi

who had been observing the stat

is to remain at her moorings at the Isle of

before nightfall, and the soo

uld it provoke more than curiosity against the condemned man, who was the principal author of the crime of Tijuco, which had formerly created such a sensation? Ought they not to fear that some popular mo

of the question

were abandoning my father and doubting his innocence-as though we were afr

" replied Manoe

deal of care. They had to work the raft slantingly across the current of the Amazon, here doubled in force by t

ly. Araujo, cleverly profiting by the bendings of the current, which were due to the projections of the banks

the mouth of the Rio Negro, and fairly in the current which was to take it

bank, not in the port of Manaos itself, which it could not enter wi

ff covered with cecropias with buds of reddish-brown, and palisaded with stiff

them to the anchorage of the raft. The news of the arrest of Joam Dacosta had soon spread abo

en to land that evening,

ght is approaching, and there is no

-morrow!" ans

ill weeping, but her mother's face was tearless, and she had that look of calm resolution which sh

ly advanced

have to say, for my conscience comma

ning," repl

Joam Dacosta, my husband, you came to me and called me-mother! You took Minha's hand, and called he

heaven forbid I should have h

ition is not now the same. However innocent he may be, my husband is in the hands of

t matters it to me?" exclaimed Mano

" murmur

have fallen had not Li

ish to kill her," said M

n! my

the tears, which she restrained

e long night not an hour's sleep fell to the lot of t

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