Captain from Castile Page #2

Ah, you could feel

the great land out there.

Tell me, seor, is it true that there's

a country on the southern sea...

where heathen Indians live in palaces

and eat their food off plates of gold?

Aye, and all that.

Kingdoms, empires,

mountains of gold...

just waiting to be taken by the first cavalier

with guts enough to venture.

- To your health, caballero.

- Gracias.

Do you plan to go back

to the Indies, seor?

The only reason I'm here now

is to see my mother.

She's had a thin life.

But not from now on.

Gonna take her back with me to the Indies

where she'll have a house of her own...

a mule, meat every day.

I haven't done badly of late years.

My share of a property in Santo Domingo

brought me 2,000 gold ducats.

2,000?

- Another cup of wine, caballero.

- Uh, gracias.

To the New World, seor.

The New World.

You do not drink.

Uh, no. But please

don't let it disturb you.

I buy wine for

the good of the house.

A penance?

Something like that.

I'm an ordinary man when sober.

When drunk,

I'm not a man, I'm a beast.

I want to kill.

Probably, I have a devil in me. Though heaven

knows, I've done what I could to get rid of it.

Spent a pile of money on candles and

But they never worked.

So So I don't drink.

- Lopez.

- Seor.

My horse.

Thank you for your hospitality, seor.

It's getting late. And if you will excuse me

- Does it happen that you're riding into Jan?

- Yes.

Well, then, by your leave,

I'll ride with you.

- Girl. Have the boy bring my animal too.

- S, seor.

And, uh, here.

- This'll fetch you a new dress.

- Gracias.

But it's gold.

It's a gold ducat.

I've never had one before.

It would buy 10 dresses.

Then buy yourself a trousseau.

If you can't find a husband, call on me.

We need her kind in the Indies.

- Adis, Lopez.

- Adis, seor.

- Good-bye, seor.

- Adis, Catana.

- Thank you again, caballero.

- It was a pleasure, seorita.

- Did you give my animal his oats as I told you?

- S, seor.

Gracias, seor.

- What magic is this?

- Clever, isn't it?

There's a rascal at Sanlcar

makes a specialty of such tricks.

Tips you off what disguise to use

and teaches you how to put it on.

They say he's been schoolmaster

to the ablest rogues in Spain.

One thing you can be sure of,

I paid him a fat price. But what the devil?

Anything that saves your life

is worth money. Adis, Lopez.

Adis, seor.

Adis, seor.

When Christopher Columbus

made his first voyage 26 years ago...

he took the prison scum

of Cdiz with him.

Rascals. Deserters.

Lawbreakers.

And it's been that way ever since.

I don't know about that, sir.

But, Father, this man I met today...

tells me that there are new lands, empires,

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