Crossword-Solution: PEPE 4 letters, 193 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The son (Emma heard them call him Pepe) was barely eighteen, she thought, but quite a man of the world, with his cigarettes, his drinks, his bold eyes.

Next morning she was playing shuffleboard with the elegant, indolent Pepe, and talking North American football and baseball to him.

There is a tradition (rather apocryphal, it is true), that a Gitáno chief, once pursuing this amusement, was encountered by a real Count, who is styled Count Pepe.

The slain chief leaves a son, who, at the instigation of his mother, steals the infant heir of his father’s enemy, who, reared up amongst the Gypsies, becomes a chief, and, in process of time, hunting over the same ground, slays Count Pepe in the very spot where the blood of the Gypsy had been poured out.

This tradition is alluded to in the following stanza:— ‘I have a gallant mare in stall; My mother gave that mare That I might seek Count Pepe’s hall And steal his son and heir.’ Martin Del Rio, in his _Tractatus de Magia_, speaks of the Gypsies and their Counts to the following effect: ‘When, in the year 1584, I was marching in Spain with the regiment, a multitude of these wretches were infesting the fields.