rely on Judge Albeiro, and h

and he it was who defended the prisoner at the trial. He took the cause to heart and made it his own, and from an examination of the papers and detailed information, and not from the simple fact of his position in the

ong a presumption? If it was not Joam Dacosta, who had every facility for informing the scoundrels of the convoy's departure, who was it? The official who accompanied the escort

erdict of the jury was affirmative on all the questions. Joam Dacosta, convicted of aggravated and premeditat

in the diamond arrayal. The condemned man was lost. But during the night which preceded his execution, and when

that the old convictions of the advocate would be still unshaken in the mind of the judge. He therefore resolved to try and rehabilitate himself. Had it not been for Ribeiro's nomination to the chief justiceship in the province of Amazones, he might perhaps have hesitated, for he had no new mat

o him, Joam Dacosta had noticed that

suitable one. It was evident to Joam that some day or other he would be a

aldez, thinking he was entering the family of Garral, would enter that of Dacosta, the head of which was under sen

os, the old Portuguese had been taken back to the farm mortally injured. A few days only were left for him to live. He was alarmed at the thought that

ut becoming her husband. The wish of the dying Magalha?s was so urgent that resistance be

itably received, from the establishment of which he had built up the prosperity! Yes! To confess everything rather than to give to the daug

stretched out toward the young people! Joam was silent, the marriage took place, and t

or an instant! But if I ought not to have deceived her, I certainly will not deceive the honest fellow who w

ed him to take her into Brazil, and with her and her daughter descend the beautiful Amazon river. He knew sufficient

of the family, which increased on every side. This happiness

rings, of which he had kept the secret so well; such had been the existence of this man, who

Manoel bore to Minha, when he could see that a year would not go by before he was asked to give hi

oncealed, with the place where he lived with his family, and at the same time with his formal intention of delivering himself up to justice, and taking steps to

no longer to the advocate that the accused applied; it was to the chief justice of the province that the c

ursue criminals, and here was one who delivered himself into his hands. This criminal, it was true, he had defended; he had never doubted but that he had been unjustly condemned; his joy had been

. The step he is taking is a fresh proof of his innocence, a moral proof, even if he

in to look through the inquiries. He had to find out if any new facts had come to light in the diamond province referring to so serious a case. Had any of the accomplices of the crime, of the smugglers who had attacked the convoy, been arrested since the atte

osta, in spite of his condemnation, was a victim, a martyr, an honest man to whom society owed a signal reparation! And when the magistrate knew the past career of the fazender of Iquitos since his sentence, the position of his family, all

espondence had passed

pressing, Joam Dacosta

h you, in the power of the c

n," replie

and son, he landed but rarely, as we know. More often he remained shut up on his room, writing, working, not at his trading accounts, but, without saying

which forestalled and perhaps would ruin his prospects, he intrusted to an Indian

strate only waited for Joam Dacosta to commence on the serio

unciation of Torres, whose scheme of extortion had collapsed in face of the noble anger of his victim, had produced its ef

ing back for him! And Joam Dacosta rose from beneath the blow which had so unexpectedly struck h