For that reason, he was the last to realise that an intrigue was shaping itself to combat his endeavours.

Von Blitz, openly his friend and ally, despite their sad encounter, was the thorn which pricked the natives into a state of uneasiness and doubt as to their agent's sincerity.
Von Blitz, cunning and methodical, sowed the seed of distrust; it sprouted at will in the minds of the uncouth, suspicious islanders.

They began to believe that no good could come out of the daily meetings of the three lawyers.

A thousand little things cropped out to prove that the intimacy between their man and the shrewd lawyers for the opposition was inimical to their best interests.
It was Von Blitz who told the leading men of the island that their wives--the Persians, the Circassians, the Egyptians and the Turkish houris--were in love with the tall stranger.

It was he who advised them to observe the actions, to study the moods of their women.
If he spoke to one of the women, beautiful or plain, the whole male population knew of it, and smiled derisively upon the husband.