And so, in the end, despite all that Cahusac could say, the surrender was not to Don Miguel, but to Peter Blood.

They had come into the venture with him, they asserted, and they would go out of it with him or not at all.

That was the message he received from them that same evening by the sullen mouth of Cahusac himself.
He welcomed it, and invited the Breton to sit down and join the council which was even then deliberating upon the means to be employed.

This council occupied the spacious patio of the Governor's house--which Captain Blood had appropriated to his own uses--a cloistered stone quadrangle in the middle of which a fountain played coolly under a trellis of vine.

Orange-trees grew on two sides of it, and the still, evening air was heavy with the scent of them.