At  last  during  the  absence  of  her  lord  on  a
piratical  expedition,  she  escaped  in  a  brigan-
tine,  eluding  the  pursuit  of  the  galleys  sent
after  her,  but  falling  in  with  her  husband's
own  ship.  The  lady  ordered  that  her  sailors
don  the  Turkish  habit,  so  their  continued
flight  was  taken  by   the   Turks    aboard    the


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husband's  ship,  all  of  whom  were  in  Spanish
dress,  to  be  the  result  of  fear,  and  an  excel-
lent joke,  and  the  lady  reached  Spain  safely,
where  she  expended  her  infidel  lord's  fortune
in  charity.  Obregon  himself  is  not  reduced
to  such  ruses  to  secure  his  liberty,  for  it  is
presented  him  by  his  renegade  master.
Wrecked  off  the  Balearics,  and  taking  refuge
on  Cabrera,  Marcos  had  been  wont  to  fre-
quent a  cool  cave  on  the  island,  from  which
he  was  warned  because  of  the  Turks  who
would  often  replenish  their  stock  of  water
there.  One  day  surprised  by  pirates  in  this
cave,  the  hero  believed  them  his  companions
in  disguise,  but  was  disabused  of  this  idea
when  carried  to  Algiers.  There  he  becomes
the  tutor  of  his  master's  son,  and  the  rene-
gade's daughter  falls  desperately  in  love  with
him.  She  is  strangely  dejected  until  at  length
he  makes  her  gay  by  a  pretended  spell,  simply
repeating  sweet  words  in  Spanish  which  no
one  else  understands.  But  his  fame  for  this
cure  grows  troublesome,  as  all  the  women  in
Algiers  are  at  his  heels  to  be  relieved  of  melan-
cholia. Upon  one  lady  he  tries  his  Salamanca
logic   formula,  Barbara,   celarent,  darii,  ferio.
