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"I had not finished," Yeste said

"What else is there to say?"

"I loved your father very dearly, that you know, but this you did not knoe were very young, not yet twenty, ith our own eyes, an exhibition by the Corsican Wizard, Bastia"

"I know of no wizards"

"It is the rank beyond master in swordsnated Long before your birth, he died at sea There have been no wizards since, and you would never in this world have beaten him But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you"

Inigo stood silent for a long tiered an the track-down He had it all carefully prepared in his o up to hio Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel

It was a lovely plan really Sio had all kinds of wild vengeance notions, but gradually, siinally, he had all kinds of little plays worked out in his e and cry, the enemy would bribe and slobber and act in every way unave way in his mind to simplicity: the ene hihted to kill you too"

Inigo had only one problem: he could not find the enemy

It never occurred to him there would be the least difficulty After all, how ht hands? Surely, it would be the talk of whatever his vicinity happened to be A few questions: "Pardon, I’ered noblemen lately?" and surely, sooner or later, there would be an answering "yes"

But it didn’t co you wanted to hold your breath for either

The first o criss-crossed Spain and Portugal The second month he moved to France and spent the rest of the year there The year following that was his Italian year, and then came Germany and the whole of Switzerland

It was only after five solid years of failure that he began to worry By then he had seen all of the Balkans and most of Scandinavia and had visited the Florinese and the natives of Guilder and into Mother Russia and down step by step around the entire Mediterranean

By then he knehat had happened: ten years learning was ten years too long; too eredrich in Ao, at the age of twenty-seven, began having a few extra glasses of wine at night, to help hilasses to help hiest his lunch At twenty-nine, the as essential to wake hi around hi alinning to bore hi his travels by finding the local champion wherever he happened to be, and they would duel, and Inigo would disarm him and accept whatever they happened to bet And with his winnings he would pay for his food and his lodging and his wine

But the local cha cities, the local experts were nothing Even in the capital cities, the localto help hian to see, without reason