A fleet of these canoes is to start about the time we arrive in New Orleans." "We might meet it," suggested Braxton Wyatt, "and say that it attacked us." The Spaniard smiled.
"The idea is not bad," he said, "and it could be done.

We could sink their whole fleet of canoes with the pretty little cannon that we carry, and we could prove that they began the attack.

But I do not choose to run the risk of compromising myself just yet.

There is a more glorious enterprise afoot.

Hark you, Senor Wyatt." Braxton Wyatt leaned forward and listened attentively.