Sir Charles Cotton despatched Captain Wormeley a second time to Cabrera with a good many head of live cattle and a large supply of other provisions .-- Tr.
But he, in turn, committed arbitrary acts; there were those who curried favor with him, and worked his will, and became his minions.

In that school of misery, where bitter minds dreamed only of vengeance, where the sophistries hatched in such brains were laying up, inevitably, a store of evil thoughts, Max became utterly demoralized.

He listened to the opinions of those who longed for fortune at any price, and did not shrink from the results of criminal actions, provided they were done without discovery.

When peace was proclaimed, in April, 1814, he left the island, depraved though still innocent.

On his return to Issoudun he found his father and mother dead.