It was an open, unanswerable reply to the unuttered threat which perhaps Hillyard might be prompted to use.
"I have spoken," continued Jose Medina.

"Now it is for you, senor.

Tell me what within the limits of my neutrality I can do to prove to you the sincerity of my respect for England ?" Hillyard took a sheet of paper and a pencil from his pocket.

He drew a rough map.
"Here are the Balearic Islands; here, farther to the west, the Columbretes; here the African coast; here the mainland of Spain.

Now watch, I beg you, senor, whilst I sketch in the routes of your feluccas.
At Oran in Africa your factories stand.