I promise to make that my first consideration.

The army is mainly for me, and Senhor San Benavides's regiment is stationed at Maceio.

The navy, on the other hand, supports Dom Miguel Barraca, who supplanted me, and we shall surely meet a cruiser or gunboat at Pernambuco.

You see, therefore, that common prudence----" "I see that, whether willing or not, we are to be made the tools of your ambition," interrupted Hozier curtly.

"It is also fairly evident that I am the only man of the _Andromeda's_ company whom you have not bribed to obey you.