A line from you and a friend can easily settle this
business. LORENZO BEZAN."
This note was carefully sealed and addressed, and so despatched as
to reach its destination early on the following morning. It was a
most unfortunate epistle for Captain Bezan, and could the young
officer have calmly considered the subject, he would never have been
so imprudent as to send it to his superior. So long as he bore the
petty annoyances of General Harero without murmuring he was strong,
that the step he had now taken greatly weakened his cause and
position. Perhaps he partly realized this as he sent the note away
on the subsequent morning; but he felt too much pride to relent, and
so only braced himself to meet the result.
The note gave General Harero what he wanted, and placed Captain
Bezan completely at his mercy. It gave him the opportunity to do
that which he most desired, viz., to arrest and imprison the young
officer. Consulting with the governor general, merely by way of
strengthening himself, he took his opinion upon the subject before
he made any open movement in the premises. This was a wary step, and
served in some degree to rob the case of any appearance of
personality that it might otherwise have worn to Tacon's eye.
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