"Samoval is Souza's principal agent--the most dangerous man in Lisbon and the most subtle.

His sympathies are French through and through." Sir Terence stared at him in frank amazement, in utter unbelief.

"Oh, impossible!" he ejaculated at last.
"I saw Samoval for the first time," said Colonel Grant by way of answer, "in Oporto at the time of Soult's occupation.

He did not call himself Samoval just then, any more than I called myself Colquhoun Grant.

He was very active there in the French interest; I should indeed be more precise and say in Bonaparte's interest, for he was the man instrumental in disclosing to Soult the Bourbon conspiracy which was undermining the marshal's army.