Word: sagrado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be very, very important, so be ready." Ten years after his dream, he found himself again in Las Palomas, this time as mate of the Pathfinder. "Now," he thought, "it will come true as appointed." He went ashore to see a prizefight, at the ringside heard one Sagrado plotting to kidnap an English girl named Kingsborough who was stay ng at Xicales ; he borrowed a bicycle, rode out to warn her. Kingsborough was not the name he had known her by when he had seen her for the first of the "three times...
There he learned that the Pathfinder had gone down, that Miss Kingsborough was still in the clutches of Sagrado. By chance, he encountered her brother in the street; while the two stood in talk, the stolen lady screamed from a neighboring house. Sard entered; soon he and Sagrado were swapping punches. Sard's right for once failed him ; so did his left. Sagrado, who had the muscle of a baboon, was about to sacrifice the intrepid sailor at the very shrine of his unswerving attachment when? the door burst down, in pelted Brother Kingsborough with reinforcements, Sagrado...