He insisted that he eat and he made his men bring him the tenderest of food, deer meat and wild turkey, and fish, freshly caught.

Finally he opened a flask and poured wine in a small silver cup.
"It is the wine of Xeres, Senor Cotter," he said, "and you can judge how precious it is, as it must be a full five thousand miles from its birthplace." He handed the little cup in grandiose manner to Paul, and Paul, meeting his humor, accepted it in like fashion.

He had not tasted wine often in his life and he found it a strong fluid, but, in this crisis, it strengthened him and put a new sparkle in his blood.
"Thanks," he said as he politely returned the empty cup, and resumed his seat on the knoll.

Then Alvarez walked aside, and talked again in whispers with the renegade.
Wyatt urged that Paul be held indefinitely.

He would not talk at first, but they must get from him the fullest details about the settlements in Kentucky, the weak points, where to attack and when.