At Bridgetown three years ago there was a Spanish raid, and things were done that should have been impossible to men, horrible, revolting things which strain belief, which seem, when I think of them now, like the illusions of some evil dream.

Are men just beasts ?" "Men ?" said Lord Julian, staring.

"Say Spaniards, and I'll agree." He was an Englishman speaking of hereditary foes.

And yet there was a measure of truth in what he said.

"This is the Spanish way in the New World.