We have hesitated as to whether there was more risk in destroying them than in preserving them," said the Baron.
Armitage shrugged his shoulders and laughed.
"They are out of my hands.

I positively decline to accept their further custody." A messenger appeared with a telegram which the Baron opened and read.
"It's from the commander of the _Sophia Margaret_, who is just leaving Rio Janeiro for Trieste, and reports his prisoners safe and in good health." "It was a happy thought to have him continue his cruise to the Brazilian coast before returning homeward.

By the time he delivers those two scoundrels to his government their fellow conspirators will have forgotten they ever lived.

But"-- and Judge Claiborne shrugged his shoulders and smiled disingenuously--"as a lawyer I deplore such methods.
Think what a stir would be made in this country if it were known that two men had been kidnapped in the sovereign state of Virginia and taken out to sea under convoy of ships carrying our flag for transfer to an Austrian battle-ship! That's what we get for being a free republic that can not countenance the extradition of a foreign citizen for a political offense." Armitage was not listening.

Questions of international law and comity had no interest for him whatever.