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The lair of the guerillas is safe from view of the "pathfinders." The east shows glimmers of dawn. The prisoner warms his chilled bones at the fire. He sees a score of bronzed faces scowling at him. Preparations for a meal are hastened. A swarthy soldier, half-bandit, half-Cossack in bearing, tells him roughly to eat. They must be off. Maxime already realizes he has been designedly kidnapped.
The government of Turin held aloof from the expedition out of regard to foreign Powers, who were indignant that the peace of Europe should be disturbed by a military adventurer, in their eyes, half-bandit and half-sailor.
To these soon joined themselves various individuals of the half-soldier half-bandit class, so numerous in Spain men who had served in former wars, and asked no better than again to enact the scenes of bloodshed and pillage which were their element.
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