Early in Captain from Castile young Pedro de Vargas, the hero, muses that in only one day in his town of Jaen, Spain, he had "befriended a pagan heretic, saved the virtue of a barmaid, and given comfort to a murderer." But in the New World — Mexico — where Pedro and the others all end up, what people once were is of little matter. Indeed, the heretic, actually an Aztec chief, exhibits more Christian virtues than a hypocritical priest of the Inquisition, the barmaid more innate quality than a vain highborn.....
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