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