Volume VI Part 31 (2/2)
”I think your best plan would be to fly Barcelona immediately”
”Then you think I have not told you the strict truth?”
”I am sure you have; but I knohence the blow co at all; but if I fly I shall be accounted guilty Take care of the sword; they tried to assassinate ot the worst of it”
I went to bed soht that if I had killed a man I had done so to self-defence; my conscience was quite clear
At seven o'clock the nextat my door I opened it, and saw ive hi that he should be compelled to use force in case of resistance
”I have no intention of resisting,” I replied ”By whose authority do you ask overnor They will be returned to you if nothing suspicious is found a to take me?”
”To the citadel”
I opened ave tomy trunk half filled with papers
”These are all the papers I have,” I said I locked the box and gave the officer the key
”I advise you, sir,” he said, ”to put all necessary articles into a portmanteau” He then ordered the landlord to send me a bed, and finally asked me if I had any papers in my pockets
”Only my passports”
”That's exactly ant,” he rejoined, with a griive the; here is his passport, here is that of the Count of Aranda, and here the passport of the Venetian ambassador You will have to bind et the theave them to the viceroy If you resist I will not bind you hand and foot, but I shall take you before the viceroy, and then you will be forced to give therace, and you shall have an acknowledgement”
The worthy landlord told ive in, so I let ave me a full quittance, which I put in my pocketbook (this he let me keep out of his kindness), and then I followed hiood distance away Co this with the circuht myself well treated
Before we left the inn the officer told ht order what meals I pleased, and I asked the landlord to let me have my dinner and supper as usual
On the way I told hiht before; he listened attentively but made no comments
When we reached the citadel I was delivered to the officer of the guard, who gave me a room on the first floor It was bare of furniture, but the s looked on to a square and had no iron bars
I had scarcely been there ten ht in
As soon as I was alone I began to think over the situation I finished where I ought to have begun
”What can this iht's adventure?”
I reflected
I could not make out the connection