"Now, Senor Delamere, being, although still very young, a naval officer of considerable experience and undoubted courage, will be an acquisition of the utmost value to us if we can but succeed in inducing him to join us--and I have hopes, very great hopes of doing so.  I, therefore, want you to take him in charge for the present, showing him the utmost consideration, and allowing him free range of the settlement,--since it will be impossible for him to escape,--because I desire him to become thoroughly acquainted with all our resources, and to see for himself the perfection of all our arrangements for securing the success of our great enterprise."