That will be sufficient, not to reward the man for the risk he has run and the fidelity that he has shown, but it will at least pay him for the service of his mules.

I do not suppose that he would earn more, and it will be a satisfaction, to me, to know that he is at least not out of pocket." The agent at once handed him a bag of silver, together with a letter to the officer in command of the Daphne.

He hired a boat and was rowed off to the ship; which was lying, with several other small British warships, in the port.

When he ascended the side the officer on duty asked him somewhat roughly, in bad Spanish, what he wanted.
"I have a letter for Captain Fry," he replied in English, to the surprise of the lieutenant.

"I am a British officer, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro." "You must not blame me for having taken you for a Spaniard," the lieutenant said in surprise, as he handed the letter Terence held out to the midshipman, with a request to deliver it to the captain.
"Your disguise is certainly excellent and, if you speak Spanish as well as you look the part, I can quite understand your getting safely through the country." "Unfortunately, I do not.