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"Why, child," said he, "I might find it hard to forgive you the
stupidity of having thought otherwise."
As he handed her to her feet again, he assured himself that he had
behaved rather well in the affair. Then he sighed. That dubious
fame of his that had spread so quickly across the Caribbean would
by now have reached the ears of Arabella Bishop. That she would
despise him, he could not doubt, deeming him no better than all
the other scoundrels who drove this villainous buccaneering trade.
Therefore he hoped that some echo of this deed might reach her also,
and be set by her against some of that contempt. For the whole
truth, which he withheld from Mademoiselle d'Ogeron, was that in
venturing his life to save her, he had been driven by the thought
that the deed must be pleasing in the eyes of Miss Bishop could
she but witness it.

CHAPTER XVI
THE TRAP

That affair of Mademoiselle d'Ogeron bore as its natural fruit an
improvement in the already cordial relations between Captain Blood
and the Governor of Tortuga.


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