Chapter 41: Following the pirate's track
Ivy had been looking for information about Cervantes for days.
She went to the library, asked people and even dared to inspect the woman's mansion again.
She found out that he was a Spanish pirate and the oldest inhabitants claimed that he had popped around there a long time ago.
However, nobody knew where he could be now, but he was probably dead.
Ivy decided that the only thing she could do was to travel to Spain, where the pirate surely was best known. She hired a ship's captain to take her there.
The journey lasted almost a month.
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Ivy arrived at a Galician port. Nobody there knew very much about Cervantes, but a historian told her that the pirate had lived most of his life in Valencia.
Unfortunately, that was on the other side of the country. So, she had to use a little bit more of her fortune to hire a carriage to take her there.
Ten days later, Ivy arrived in Valencia.
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Everything was different in there. Everybody had heard about Cervantes. Some people said he had become a fearsome pirate, others that he had moved to England. However, most of them thought he was dead.
Finally, a sailor who lived at the seaside told her that he had seen a ship which looked like the one Cervantes' used. It docked once a month on the beach and then set sail again.
However, there was something strange about that ship. Nobody had ever seen anybody getting out of it. Ever, but the last time it arrived. That had been two weeks before. The sailor had seen a big and strong man getting out of the ship. He had been talking with a hooded man. The sailor remembered that man well because he was wearing a cross-shaped amulet around his neck.
Ivy became intrigued by what that man had said, so she decided to stay there for two weeks until the mysterious ship arrived again.