"Well, I am a man to whom you and Colonel Melendez offered an atrocious insult. I am the Monk Antonio!"
At this name the two adversaries felt a thrill of terror run through their veins; without doubt the monk was about to avenge himself, now that in his turn he had them in his power.
[CHAPTER V.]
BEFORE THE BATTLE.
John Davis recovered almost immediately.
"Ah, ah!" he said, "Then it is you, my master?"
"It astonishes you to meet me here."
"On my honour, no. Your place, in my opinion, is wherever a snare is laid; hence nothing is more natural than your presence."
"It is wrong, John Davis, for a man to take advantage of his weakness to insult people, especially when he is ignorant of their intentions."