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Updated: May 29, 2025
Weems got pale, and offered the Carabinero half a peseta. Had the bribe been a big one and tendered privately, it might have carried weight; but as it was, the offer was an insult. "At this point I pushed through the crowd, and offered my services as an interpreter.
The inevitable Carabinero gave us an examination, and then we made our way up from the little port village through beanfields and vineyards and oliveyards, past an old Roman amphitheatre on to the double-walled town.
But her skipper was a man of local knowledge, and remembered that there were three small harbours on the northern coast of Minorca, used exclusively by fishermen and contrabandistas. Further, being a man of guile, he understood the ways of the outpost Carabinero.
"When you are caught" adds the speaker, scrutinizing them all with his eyes, become piercing again "When you are caught What is the life of a man worth in such a case? You would not hesitate, either, I suppose, if you were caught ?" "Sure not," replied Arrochkoa, in a tone of infantile bravado, "Sure not! In such a case to take the life of a carabinero no one would hesitate!
She disgorged herself of two passengers and a small lot of luggage, and departed whence she had come in scared haste. A Carabinero, with his back ostentatiously turned to the newcomers, leaned on his rifle, whistling mournfully.
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