THE AFFAIR AT TAVORA
II. THE ULTIMATUM
III. LADY O'MOY
IV. COUNT SAMOVAL
V. THE FUGITIVE
VI. MISS ARMYTAGE'S PEARLS
VII. THE ALLY
VIII. THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
IX. THE GENERAL ORDER
X. THE STIFLED QUARREL
XI. THE CHALLENGE
XII. THE DUEL
XIII. POLICHINELLE
XIV. THE CHAMPION
XV. THE WALLET
XVI. THE EVIDENCE
XVII. BITTER WATER
XVIII. FOOL'S MATE
XIX. THE TRUTH
XX. THE RESIGNATION
XXI. SANCTUARY
POSTSCRIPTUM
THE SNARE
CHAPTER I
THE AFFAIR AT TAVORA
It is established beyond doubt that Mr. Butler was drunk at the time.
This rests upon the evidence of Sergeant Flanagan and the troopers
who accompanied him, and it rests upon Mr. Butler's own word, as we
shall see. And let me add here and now that however wild and
irresponsible a rascal he may have been, yet by his own lights he
was a man of honour, incapable of falsehood, even though it were
calculated to save his skin. I do not deny that Sir Thomas Picton
has described him as a "thieving blackguard." But I am sure that
this was merely the downright, rather extravagant manner, of
censure peculiar to that distinguished general, and that those who
have taken the expression at its purely literal value have been
lacking at once in charity and in knowledge of the caustic,
uncompromising terms of speech of General Picton whom Lord
Wellington, you will remember, called a rough, foulmouthed devil.
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