We need not bring the prisoners forth until we are ready." Alvarez, slept peacefully that night.

He had recovered his spirits, shaken by the arrival of the King's messenger.

Aided by the dexterous renegade, Braxton Wyatt, he would soon persuade Bernardo Galvez that he had acted for the best in the matter of the men from Kaintock.
He rose early the next morning and, as a mark of signal favor, invited Braxton Wyatt to take breakfast with him.

While they sat together Luiz came in with a long face.
"Now what is it, my brave Luiz ?" said Alvarez, who was in an exceeding good humor, "why this saturnine countenance ?" "I beg to report, your Excellency," said Luiz, "that the Natchez Indian whom they call The Cat had been found dead in the forest, of a knife thrust that came out behind the shoulder." "That is bad," said Alvarez.

"Have they found out who did it ?" "No, Your Excellency.