Wolverstone was set at liberty that afternoon, and his assailant
sentenced to two months' detention. Thus harmony was restored.
But it had been an unpromising beginning, and there was more to
follow shortly of a similar discordant kind.
Blood and his officers were summoned a week later to a council which
sat to determine their operations against Spain. M. de Rivarol laid
before them a project for a raid upon the wealthy Spanish town of
Cartagena. Captain Blood professed astonishment. Sourly invited by
M. de Rivarol to state his grounds for it, he did so with the utmost
frankness.
"Were I General of the King's Armies in America," said he, "I should
have no doubt or hesitation as to the best way in which to serve my
Royal master and the French nation. That which I think will be
obvious to M. de Cussy, as it is to me, is that we should at once
invade Spanish Hispaniola and reduce the whole of this fruitful and
splendid island into the possession of the King of France."
"That may follow," said M. de Rivarol. "It is my wish that we begin
with Cartagena.
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