"
The Governor seemed to shed his chubbiness. He drew himself
stiffly erect.
"Your rank, monsieur, does not give you the right to rebuke me; nor
do the facts. I have enlisted for you the men that you desired me
to enlist. It is not my fault if you do not know how to handle them
better. As Captain Blood has told you, this is the New World."
"So, so!" M. de Rivarol smiled malignantly. "Not only do you offer
no explanation, but you venture to put me in the wrong. Almost I
admire your temerity. But there!" he waved the matter aside. He
was supremely sardonic. "It is, you tell me, the New World, and
- new worlds, new manners, I suppose. In time I may conform my
ideas to this new world, or I may conform this new world to my ideas."
He was menacing on that. "For the moment I must accept what I find.
It remains for you, monsieur, who have experience of these savage
by-ways, to advise me out of that experience how to act."
"M. le Baron, it was a folly to have arrested the buccaneer captain.
It would be madness to persist.
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