" *12 Still, to obviate every
possibility of danger, it was deemed prudent for Pizarro to
abstain from going to mass on Sunday, and to remain at home on
pretence of illness.
[Footnote 11: "Pues un dia antes un sacerdote clerigo llamado
Benao fue de noche y avisso a Picado el secreptario y dixole
manana Domingo quando el marquez saliere a misa tienen concertado
los de Chile de matar al marquez y a vos y a sus amigos. Esto me
a dicho vno en confision para que os venga a avisar. Pues savido
esto Picado se fue luego y lo conto al marquez y el le
rrespondio. Ese clerigo obispado quiere." Pedro Pizarro, Descub.
y Conq., Ms.]
[Footnote 12: "El Juan Velazquez le dixo. No tema vuestra
senoria que mientras yo tuviere esta vara en la mano nadie se
atrevera." Pedro Pizarro, Descub, y Conq., Ms.]
On the day appointed, Rada and his companions met in Almagro's
house, and waited with anxiety for the hour when the governor
should issue from the church. But great was their consternation,
when they learned that he was not there, but was detained at
home, as currently reported, by illness. Little doubting that
their design was discovered, they felt their own ruin to be the
inevitable consequence, and that, too, without enjoying the
melancholy consolation of having struck the blow for which they
had incurred it. Greatly perplexed, some were for disbanding, in
the hope that Pizarro might, after all, be ignorant of their
design. But most were for carrying it into execution at once, by
assaulting him in his own house.
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