D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 240: what you’re looking at

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A Talk Over Sword Blades. 225 “It was,” said the other Frenchman portentously, | “without doubt, dust of the earth.” “It appears,’ proceeded the musketeer, “that pious Jews, inasmuch as none can be sure of dying just where he likes, carry with them a little earth scraped up in the neighborhood of Jerusalem. It follows that, when they are dying, outlandishly, they place this bag under the nape and pass away literally on the soil of Judea.” ‘I never before heard that those people vied with our Loyolaists in casuistry,” observed Jorge, chafing to get away. “Does this lead to your recommendation ?” “Right up to it. My friend and I remonstrated with the freehanded caballeros and saved the merchant’s hide. As he had little but his thanks, and we were above rec- ompense, he presented me with a skin of parchment, did he not, Porthos , “For saving his skin he gave us a sheeepskin, to be sure.” “A parchment ¢ “It was a mortgage on a property called Floriador, 9) near Lisbon “T see, my estate, pledged by my father in 1632; there is a dozen years for it yet to run. “There would be, but I conclude that I have stopped its running.” “Then this Jew who owes his life to your lordship, was Elizor Soleiman of Algarve f “That is the name—it would be on the document, eh, Porthos ?” “T never knew him under any other name,” replied the obliging friend, who would back up his comrade still farther. He began to understand the artifice. “Giving it to me, he said that the party of the first part would be my banker and host on presentation. Colonel and count, allow me to hand over the mortgage. Cancel it forthwith, for, in these ticklish times, one knows not into whose hands such papers may fall.” “Cancel it, and gladly! My father pledged Floriador _ to procure means to equip a regiment of our tenants for the war against France. Now, I will pledge it again for this war against the rebel Portuguese. Never shall CORNICE OOOKS (CO)