Henry's pride and spirit must be broken, and he, Francisco Alvarez, was the man for the task.
He clapped his hands and a soldier entered.

He sent a message by him and several more came, accompanied by Braxton Wyatt.

Alvarez motioned Wyatt to a seat.
"Senor Wyatt," he said in his slow, precise English, "I have been having a talk with your friend, your former friend here, and I find him to be as unworthy as you have described him to be.

I offered only kindness to himself and his friends.

I chose to believe that they had been merely foolish, misled by ignorance, but his reply has been only to insult me and to blacken you." The renegade did not seek to conceal the joy that shone in his eyes.