Can you tell
us how to reach him?"
Lieutenant Diego Bernal glanced at "The Galleon," which was obviously of
Spanish build, but he was a shrewd officer who would make his way in the
world and he knew that many strange things passed inspection in this great
Franco-Spanish metropolis of New Orleans.
"His Excellency, the Governor General," he replied, "is now at his house
at the corner of Toulouse street and Rue de la Levee, but it is too late
for you to see him to-day. To-morrow morning you may secure audience with
him if you have the important message that you say."
The five disregarded the ironical tone in his voice. They were good enough
judges of character to surmise that Lieutenant Diego Bernal, whose name
and career were unknown to them, did not care a particle how they had come
into possession of the boat which was so obviously of Spanish build. There
was no advantage to him in asking too many questions, and he calmly waved
them to a landing.
They pulled in and tied their boat to the levee, while men and women,
white, yellow, brown, and black, and all the colors between, stood about
and looked at the giants from Kaintock, where people were reported to be
of such extraordinary size and ferocity, and where they certainly were, as
their own eyes could tell them, of uncommon height and strength, even boys
such as they saw Henry and Paul to be.
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