He stood straight up.
"All except that they will be forbidden too," he added with a smile, "to supply either food or drink or oil to any enemy vessel." Jose Medina raised his hands in protest.
"That order was given months ago.

But it shall be repeated, and you can trust me, it shall be obeyed." The two men went to the door of the villa, and stood outside in the garden.

It seemed the interview was over, and the agreement made.

But indeed the interview as Hillyard had planned it had hardly begun.

He had a series of promises which might be kept or broken, and the keeping or breaking of them could not be checked.