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In a few minutes he was asleep beneath the speculative eye of Marcos, who sat in the far corner of the carriage. The General was going to Saragossa, so they parted from him in the cold, early morning at Castèjon, where an icy wind swept over the plain, and the snow lay thick on the ground. "It will be cold at Pampeluna!" muttered the General from within the hood of his military cloak.
"Behind you? I understood that he left Pampeluna yesterday for Saragossa," said Sarrion. "Yes but I heard at Alagón that he was delayed on the road at the Castejon side of Alagón an accident to his carriage a broken wheel." "Ah!" said Sarrion sympathetically. He glanced at Marcos who was looking out of the window with a thoughtful smile.
Brave they were, as they proved in 1541, against Charles the Fifth, whose forces they defeated and nearly destroyed at Haratsch, in 1565, at the siege of Malta, in 1572, in the seafight of Lepanto, in many smaller combats at different times, defending their land triumphantly in 1775 against the Spaniards under O'Reilly and Castejon.
From another he heard the rumour that the Carlists had torn up the line between Pampeluna and Castéjon. "Go to the station," this informant added. "They will tell you there, because you are a rich man. To me they will tell nothing."
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