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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Knowing that the window was too small to admit them, we watched only the front where the door is, Your Excellency," said Carlos, still trembling. "Who would have dreamed that these men of Kaintock were magicians, that without picks or shovels they could burrow under the earth and be gone like ghosts." "Begone yourselves!" exclaimed Alvarez. "Get ready for the boats at once!"
He had recovered his spirits, shaken by the arrival of the King's messenger. Aided by the dexterous renegade, Braxton Wyatt, he would soon persuade Bernardo Galvez that he had acted for the best in the matter of the men from Kaintock. He rose early the next morning and, as a mark of signal favor, invited Braxton Wyatt to take breakfast with him.
You, Señor Ware, are a representative of a race that has crossed the mountains into a new region. You have there, in Kaintock, thin and feeble settlements that must soon be crushed." Henry spoke for the first time, but he showed no excitement, although his heart had begun to beat faster. "I think you are wrong, Captain Alvarez," he said.
You wish the liberty and the open air of Kaintock. Your legs are long and you would stretch them." "You hev shore hit it, leftenant," said Tom Ross. "Sometimes I think uv startin' off walkin' ez straight an' hard ez I kin, goin' right through the wall thar, an' then through any house that might git in the way, an' never to stop goin' 'till I got to Kentucky, whar a man may breathe free an' easy."
"They grow large in the new country to the north that they call Kaintock, but I, Alonzo Menocal of Santo Domingo, am the stronger. Stand up, thou youth of Kaintock, by the side of me!" Henry promptly stood up again, and the young giant towered above Alonzo Menocal of Santo Domingo, tall though the West Indian was. Moreover he had greater breadth of shoulder and a deeper chest.
Neither did he like the passing of New Orleans from the French into the hands of the Spanish, although trade was as good as ever at his Inn of Henri Quatre, despite the narrow Spanish rule, which was not to his taste. It was perhaps one half his love of freedom and one-half his objection to the rule of Spain that made him look with friendly eyes upon any far wanderers from Kaintock.
"Not more than he is of Kaintock," said the Lieutenant. Then he turned to the five and said: "I did not bring you here merely to hear words. I wish something to drink for my friends, kind Monsieur Gilibert. The inn has rum of both New England and Barbadoes, Spanish and French wines. Now what shall it be?"
"No one doubts your courage and endurance, Don Francisco," said Bernardo Galvez. "My devotion to Spain is the great passion of my life," continued Alvarez in a gratified tone. "You know how jealously I have sought to guard against incursions from Kaintock.
"I should like to punish that boy in some spectacular manner," he said. "I should want him to be humiliated in the presence of others as I was." Suddenly he raised his head, which he had bent in thought, and his lips curled in laughter under his yellow mustache. "I have it!" he exclaimed. "An idea! Since young Kaintock can use the sword I shall give him a chance to do it again!
It seemed rather to indicate a confidence that the Governor General would punish as was fitting the impertinence of the intruders from Kaintock. He bestowed only a single glance upon them, as if his victory over such insignificant opponents were already assured.
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