Moreover, he could use the hurt pride of Alvarez as an
additional incitement against the five whom he hated.
"You told me once," said Alvarez "that the three comrades of the two, the
three whom we have not captured, are much to be dreaded, and we have had
proof of it?"
"It is so."
"But what can they do now?"
"But little," answered the renegade. "It was farther north in the great
wilderness, where they are so much at home, that they could do us harm.
Here within the fringe of the French and Spanish settlements, they will be
hampered too much."
"Yes, I should think so," said Alvarez thoughtfully. "As you perhaps
surmise, I am going to stay here indefinitely, Wyatt. This place of mine,
Beaulieu, I call it, is at a suitable distance from New Orleans and I am
an absolute monarch while I remain. Here, on the border, I am as a
military commander, practically lord of life and death, and on one excuse
or another I can hold the troops as long as I please."
"Which seems to me to be very convenient for all our plans," said Braxton
Wyatt.
The Spaniard smiled, but speedily contracted his brows again. The cut that
Paul had given him was hurting.
"I should like to punish that boy in some spectacular manner," he said.
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