Yet Francisco Alvarez thought that a bold woodsman like Braxton Wyatt would not show so much fear after a harmless passage with any kind of a snake.
"Do you think the five, the party that you said were so much to be dreaded, are still following us ?" he asked presently.
The pallor showed again for a moment through the tan in Braxton Wyatt's face, but he answered again as carelessly as he could: "It may be.

I hate them, but I do not deny that they are bold and resourceful.

They have a good boat, and they may follow; but what harm could they do ?" "As I told you, they might go before Bernardo Galvez, our Governor General at New Orleans, and spoil the pretty plan that you and I have formed.
Galvez is--as he calls himself--a Liberal.

He would help these rebels and fight England.

How can a Spaniard lend himself to the cause of Republican rebels and injure monarchy?
Cannot he foresee, cannot he look ahead a little and tell what rebel success means?
It would in the end be as great a blow to Spain as to England.