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So he quickly routed up all the halters in the mill and they set to work. The blind giant laid the pandurs one by one across his knee and placing their hands behind their backs crosswise held them towards Szilard, who bound them fast.

The lord-lieutenants of the counties proclaimed the statarium, called out the banderia and gathered together the county pandurs and the militia, in order by their combined efforts, to extirpate the evil without having recourse to the assistance of the military a measure always repugnant to the freedom-loving Magyars.

"That is just what I want. The trouble is at present that they lie so still." And with that he ordered half of his pandurs to lie down and sleep and the other half to remain awake and so relieve each other every three hours. So the pandurs rested till midday and then the sergeant began to urge Szilard to set off again or else they would arrive too late.

And now the pandurs understood the plan of their young leader and were ready to follow him blindly through fire and water. In another half hour they had passed through the "Roman Gate" and reached the valley beyond, and by next morning Vamhidy had lit down like a thunderbolt from the sky where nobody expected him. By the evening he had run down eight persons who were under very strong suspicion.

Juon smelt it and pronounced it to be the wax of wild bees. "You see, sir, you will not be able to discharge this pistol, for the touch holes are so plugged up that it will take you some hours to thoroughly clean them." "At any rate I have still the firearms of my pandurs." "Let us examine them also, sir!" They did so forthwith and found that they too had been utterly ruined.

John Lapussa there also, as his companion. All the efforts of the two pandurs were powerless to silence him. As for Mr. John, the magistrate simply said to him: "Sir, it is not good for a man to make use of nasty tools, for by so doing he only dirties his own hands." Then he got into a second hackney coach and drove away after the first one. Even Mr.

The leadership of this special corps was entrusted to young Szilard Vamhidy, upon whose ingenuity, determination and ability Squire Gerzson professed to place the utmost reliance. As soon as he had received this important charge, Szilard took horse and set off at the head of his four and twenty pandurs.

The old pandurs naturally began murmuring among themselves. "Oh!" said they, "if he keeps on blurting out his whole line of route like this, we shall only have the empty nests of the robbers to thresh out for our trouble." "And this chap thinks, forsooth, that he will capture Fatia Negra!" growled the veteran sergeant.

"Pardon me," said the magistrate drawing nearer, "but by order of the High Court, I am here to arrest Margari, and ascertaining that you had taken him away with you, I was obliged to follow to prevent him from escaping altogether." Two stout pandurs behind the magistrate gave additional emphasis to his words. "Arrest me?" cried Margari, "why me? I am as honest as the day.

His plan was to occupy all the mountain roads and passes leading out of the six counties with armed bands of militia, while at the same time he himself advanced slowly along the highroads with his gentlemen-volunteers joining hands together from place to place. Between various groups of the volunteers were regular lines of pandurs who had to thoroughly scour all the forests they came to.