Stephano kept his word, and procured more than one meeting between the royal sufferers. Paula undertook to transmit an account of the King’s situation to his kinsman Braganza, by whom her infant was now protected. She herself was thus far on her way to rejoin the Duchess of Medina Sidonia in Spain, whither Paula found her gone to take leave of a dying friend. Paula used all her rhetoric to persuade Kara Aziek to accompany her: but not even the temptation of beholding Blanche again, could swerve the conjugal love of Aziek: she was determined to follow the fate of her husband, wherever it might lead; and as the Duchess held in her possession the little remnant of their wealth, and might transmit it through Paula, Aziek resolved to avail herself of Stephano’s protection, and dwell at least in the vicinity of the galleys. Charged with letters to their beloved child, and to the Duchess, in which the anxious parents besought all efforts for their own happiness to cease, and nothing be attempted but for that of Blanche, Paula departed from Naples. No sooner was the injured King of Portugal placed in a situation which exposed him to all eyes, than crowds flocked to see and to converse with him. Every day, every hour, produced fresh testimonies to his truth: and had not religious prejudices enfeebled their compassion, and lowered their respect, the Neapolitans would have joined the loyal Portuguese in rescuing him by force from the galleys. This universal discontent so far alarmed the new Count Lemos, that he dispatched a messenger to Madrid, with a detail of what he feared: the consequence of his dispatch, was an order for the galleys to quit the Mediterranean and come down to the western coast of Spain. Not even this change, could divide Kara Aziek from Sebastian: she followed him in a little vessel bound for the same port, accompanied by Baptista, whom kindness and fidelity had endeared to her, and rendered her chief solace. The galleys were commanded to ride in the bay of St. Lucar: and at St. Lucar Kara Aziek took up her abode. Unknown and unnoticed, she depended solely on the humanity of Baptista’s lover, for distant interviews with her husband.