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SCENE II.
—The Corridor of the Palace.Enter Velasquez and Andreas, meeting Nunez.
Velas.
Saw you Alasco, as you came along?
Nunez.
No, sir.
Velas.
The same response I meet from all:
Strange, how I lost him all at once!—We enter'd
The citadel together! Where can he be?
Only a word or two I changed with one,
Apart, who drew me to confer with him,
And straight returning found Alasco vanish'd.
Nunez.
Remember'st who was with him?
Velas.
Cortez.
Nunez.
Right!
Myself remark'd them—overheard them speaking,
Touching the manner of Ruphino's murder,
The while Almagro, guarded, walk'd before.
Velas.
Almagro? You remind me now of him.
Him, also, did I miss.
Nunez.
At the same time?
Where'er they are, most like they are together!
Velas.
The chance o'erleaps your guess—Be sure they are!
At such a juncture, save his father's death,
And him the hated instrument of it, nothing
Could so engross Alasco that he leaves
The throne untended that gives amnesty
To wide revolt; and, for the grace it deigns,
Receives whole hearts with thrice-sworn homage back!
Let's search for good Alasco.—Near Almagro,
Chain'd though he were already—he's no match,
For such a maze of wily villany!
Speed—Bestir yourself—He must be found!
[They go out.
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