Now eighteen, Felix sets out across the mountains of Spain to rescue three children kidnapped by their father. Along the way, he hopes to see his true love, Juana, who has entered a convent. But his rescue party is being followed, and Felix fears he and the children are being led into a trap.
The third book in an adventure trilogy set in the early nineteenth century
Intrigue is Aiken's stock-in-trade, and there is plenty to be found in this novel . . . [Readers] could hardly ask for a more diverting, action-filled plot. --Publishers Weekly
Thrilling. --VOYA(5Q, highest rating)
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In which I receive a message from home; travel with Pedro, am followed by Sancho the Spy; see a spoiled child and her fat father; give our pursuers the slip; and witness a fearsome landslide
It was on some saint’s day—whose, I don’t remember—that Pedro came knocking at the door of my lodging in Salamanca. The townspeople had been celebrating since dawn, with processions, fireworks, bullfights, and dancing in the streets; the students at the University had a holiday, and most of them had been out, waving banners and demanding more liberal laws. Many of them had by this time been arrested and were probably in bad trouble. By nightfall, most of the town’s activities were concentrated in the Plaza Mayor, the main square, onto which my window faced. People who still had the energy—and there were plenty of them—were dancing; the older citizens sat at tables under trees in the middle of the plaza and drank wine and coffee and talked.
People talk more, in Salamanca, I have heard it said, than in any other town in the world. The sound of their conversation came up through my window—open, for it was a mild spring evening—in a solid clatter, like the tide breaking on a pebbled shore, just sometimes overborne by bursts of music on pipe, drum, and gul£?
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