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We trotted over the narrow paved street, with its flagged sidepaths, and drew up on the Plaza, overlooked by the solid square-stone mansion of the Ayuntamiento. The windows were screened with planks, and armed groups lounged in front; there were barrels of water and heaps of gravel at intervals upon the ground; memories of Paris rose to my mind Irun was preparing for bombardment.
Beneath me was the increasing flood of the frontier river: at my very feet lay the narrow and picturesque street canyons of the ancient town; to the south was Irun in the shelter and shadow of the mountains; east-south-east rose the pyramidal summit of Larhune; the west was the sharp ridge of the brown Jaisquivel which hid San Sebastian; to the north was the rolling Bay; and right to the south the triple crown of Las Tres Coronas cut the sky sharply.
Where Don Carlos might advance next, or where severe fighting not such brushes as that I witnessed at Irun might take place, was a mystery. The movements of the Republican leaders were inexplicable, and conducted in contravention of all known principles of the art of war. They harassed their men by long and objectless marches.
This at least is mainly the trace that the scenery as far as Irun has left among my notes; and after Irun there is record of more and more corn.
"Et tout tremble, Irun, Coïmbre, Santander, Almodovar, Sitôt qu'on entend le timbre Des cymbales de Bivar." The redbreasts and the brooks of Europe, in that dry and songless land; brave old names and wars, strong cities, cymbals, and bright armour, in that nook of the mountain, sacred only to the Indian and the bear!
"Yes, she's off to-night and the old man also," I said, glad that he was to get out of the mysterious danger that undoubtedly threatened him. "What!" cried my companion, staggered. "Is the old fellow actually leaving also? At what time?" "By the six o'clock train the express to Irun," I replied. He was thoughtful for a moment. Then he said abruptly in a thick voice: "I don't want any lunch.
The Plaza de la Constitucion is the centre of the town, and beneath its colonnade are the offices of the countless diligences that connect the smaller towns of Navarre with the capital, which continued to run even in time of war to such places as Irun, Jaca, and even Estella, where the Carlist cause is openly espoused. Marcos made the round of the diligence offices.
At this small station of Aranotz, where the carriage will leave both of them, Ramuntcho and Gracieuse, they will take the train for Bayonne, at three o'clock in the morning, and, at Bayonne afterward, the Irun express to Bordeaux.
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