Hyppolito smiled approbation, and returning to the plan for Sebastian’s escape, continued to converse on that subject, till a neighbouring clock twice reminded them that they should part. They now separated: Hyppolito promising to impart the meeting to Kara Aziek, and Don Christopher expressing a hope, that should he repair at dusk to her abode, in less lowly attire, she would admit him into her presence. The interesting circumstances which Hyppolito related to Kara Aziek, shed a bright light over her long benighted spirit: at the description of Sebastian’s conduct, and the impressions it produced on all the beholders, she shed tears of exultation: her life was closing, but could she preserve his, bestow Blanche upon Don Hyppolito, and obtain their solemn promise to forget that the blood of Kings flowed in the veins of their children, she should die happy. Some such prospect now opened on her, and the ardent language of young Guzman taught her to believe it near. Blanche spoke not; though her eyes, (fixed on Hyppolito with such fulness of love and gratitude, that she thought not what they was expressing) thrilled through all his frame, awakening a transporting conviction, that he was exclusively beloved. No sooner had Don Christopher paid his respectful visit to Kara Aziek, than the two young men proceeded to commence their attack upon the honesty, or the compassion, of Haro, captain of the galley. The man was necessitous and he was humane: both motives rendered him accessible. Since the recognition of his prisoner by the Duke of Medina, he had granted to him, (by the Duke’s request) the indulgence of walking over the vessel with his ancles unfettered: this indulgence might, he thought, be turned into an apology for his disappearance. Thus free in his limbs, nothing would be sooner credited than that the wretched Sebastian had thrown himself into the sea, and perished by a voluntary death. Haro proposed that Don Christopher and Don Hyppolito, should come some midnight under the stern of the vessel, when he would undertake to have all the slaves, and other officers, either at rest or at a distance; he alone, watching by Sebastian. To convey the King privately down the side of the galley into the boat without discovery, might be difficult, but not impracticable; and the moment the boat received him and rowed away round the other end of the galley, Haro was to extinguish his lamp as if by accident, fling some large substance into the sea loaded with the chains of Sebastian, and by his outcry bring all the other persons to this end of the ship.