I am not surprised that, with such generalship, you got off almost scatheless.
"And now, sir, I must ask you to come with me to the king.

The matter is too serious for a moment's delay.

I must lay the whole case before His Majesty." Leaving Desmond in the antechamber, he went in to the king, read the full report to him, and added the details he had heard from Desmond.
"I have met with many bad cases of Spanish corruption and peculation," the king said, when he had finished, "but this is by far the worst.

Steps must be taken instantly to secure the governor, arrest the contractors, and fill up the magazines.

What do you propose ?" "I think, sir, that if we send forward, at once, a regiment of French soldiers from Toledo, accompanied by Colonel Crofton's regiment of dragoons, there is no likelihood that any resistance will be offered--indeed, I should imagine that the governor will have taken to flight, as soon as he learns that his plans for the assassination of Major Kennedy have failed." "So I should think," the king said; "and certainly he will have warned his accomplices, the contractors; and probably, by this time, they are all on their way either into Andalusia or to the north.