He half rose from his seat and then sat down again.
"I have made you an offer," he said, "one that any youth or young man should be proud to accept, and you insult me by saying that you doubt my faith.

You are a child, a backwoodsman, and an ignorant fellow!" "I am not ignorant about some things of importance," replied Henry calmly, "but, if I were low enough to be tempted by your offer, I should still be wise enough to know that a man who plots against his own superior officer could not be trusted by me." "What do you mean ?" asked Alvarez, paling for a moment.
"Is it not true that by fair or foul means you expect shortly to succeed Bernardo Galvez as Governor General of Louisiana ?" The Spaniard's hand flew to his sword hilt.

Such things as these were not to be known by everybody.

But Henry met his gaze steadily, and the hand fell away from the sword-hilt.

He had gone too far already.