Truly de Garcia's triumph was complete.

I had come to hunt him down, and what was the end of it?
He was about to hurl me to the sharks.

Still I answered him with such dignity as I could command.
'You have me at some disadvantage,' I said.

'Now if there is any manhood left in you, give me a sword and let us settle our quarrel once and for all.

You are weak from sickness I know, but what am I who have spent certain days and nights in this hell of yours.