Mistress Dorothy resented his language, treated him coldly, and finally departed, leaving him decidedly angry.

He merely vented his spite on me." "But he said nothing about himself--his motives ?" "Not a word, sir; yet it is plain to be seen that he is deeply interested in your niece." Fairfax frowned, ignoring the remark.
"But do you know the man--who he is ?" I shook my head, the memory of Haley flashing into my mind, but as instantly dismissed as worthless.

Fairfax would only laugh at such a vague suspicion.

Yet why should the planter ask me such a question?
Could it be that the Spaniard was equally unknown to himself?
"But if he has quarreled with your brother," he insisted, unsatisfied "you perhaps know something ?" "I have not seen my brother in years.

I doubt if I would know him if we met face to face.