Let Captain Blood do his worst at Maracaybo, there should be a bitter reckoning for him when eventually he decided--as, sooner or later, decide he must--to come forth.

The Deputy-Governor was flung into panic.

He lost his temper, and said some hard things to the Admiral.

But they were not as hard as the thing the Admiral said to him in answer.
"Had you been as loyal to your King in hindering the entrance of these cursed pirates as I shall be in hindering their going forth again, we should not now find ourselves in our present straits.

So weary me no more with your coward counsels.