The count was most anxious to learn all particulars, but I could only tell him that you asserted the governor had attacked you first.

He drove in at once, and made no doubt that he should be allowed to see you.

In this, however, he was disappointed, and indeed you have had a most fortunate escape.
The officer second in command here is a relative of the late governor.
Fortunately he was absent this morning, and only returned this afternoon.

Like the late count he is of a violent and passionate temper, and when he heard the news swore that had he been here, he would have instantly had you brought out and shot in the square.
Indeed, it was with difficulty that the other officers dissuaded him from doing so upon his return.

He has ordered that a court-martial shall assemble to-morrow, and that you shall be at once tried and executed." "But surely," Jack said, "no court-martial of officers would find us guilty.