Orihuela © Mark Wade

Then these dames wrote a letter to their father the Cid, which was a letter of credence, that he should believe the tidings which Felez Munoz would deliver, and they wrote it with the blood from their wounds.

And Felez Munoz went his way towards Valencia; and when he came to Santesteban he spake with Diego Tellez, who had been of the company of Alvar Fanez, and told him of what had befallen.

He, so soon as he heard this great villainy, took beasts and seemly raiment, and went for those dames, and brought them from the house of that good man to Santesteban, and did them all honour that he could.

They of Santesteban were always gentlemen; and they comforted the daughters of the Cid, and there they were healed of their hurts.

In the meantime Felez Munoz proceeded on his journey, and it came to pass that he met Alvar Fanez Minaya, and Pero Bermudez on the way, going to the King with a present which the Cid had sent him; and the present was this,...two hundred horses, from those which he had won in the battle of Quarto from King Bucar, and a hundred Moorish prisoners, and many good swords, and many rich saddles.

And as Alvar Fanez and Pero Bermudez rode on in talk, they thought that it was he, and marvelled greatly; and he when he drew nigh began to tear his hair, and make great lamentation, so that they were greatly amazed.

And they alighted, asking him what it was.

And he related unto them all that had befallen.

But when they heard this, who can tell the lamentation which they made? And they took counsel together what they should do, and their counsel was this,...that they should proceed to the King, and demand justice at his hands in the name of the Cid, and that Felez Munoz should proceed to Valencia.

So he told them the name of the good man with whom he had left the dames, and the place where he dwelt, and also how he had spoken with Diego Tellez at Santesteban, and then they parted.