He looked at the five with as much curiosity as they looked at him.

Secretly he admired their splendid shoulders and chests, and their obvious strength.

He was acute enough, too, to guess whence they came.

Lieutenant Diego Bernal had not been two years in New Orleans for nothing.
"You come from Kaintock ?" he said in fair and not unfriendly English.
"Yes," replied Henry, "we are all the way from Kentucky, and we have an important message for the Governor General, Bernardo Galvez.

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.