There he had landed some of his small cannon and stores at a rude wharf, and showed all the signs of making a stay, but whether short or long they could not tell.
"Alvarez must have a place, a plantation, I believe they call it, near here," said Paul intuitively, "and he's going to stop at it.

As he wants to get Spain into a war with us he could plot a lot of mischief in a house of his own away from New Orleans." "Of course, that's it," said Henry with conviction.

"Now if we could only capture Braxton Wyatt and then carry off the fellow and his maps and plans with us, it would be a great stroke.

It might make Alvarez quit his wicked plot." Henry and Shif'less Sol slept briefly, and rising before daylight, went forth to investigate again.

When they arrived at the edge of the bayou, they saw that the work of removal had been resumed already.