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We both sat down and ate, Antonio voraciously. When we had concluded he arose: "Have you got your li?" he demanded. "Here it is," said I, showing him my passport. "Good," said he, "you may want it; I want none, my passport is the bar lachi. Now for a glass of repani, and then for the road."
Do you believe that a lifeless stone can preserve you from the dangers which occasionally threaten your life? Antonio. Brother, I am fifty years old, and you see me standing before you in life and strength; how could that be unless the bar lachi had power? I have been soldier and contrabandista, and I have likewise slain and robbed the Busne. Myself.
"'To prison, my poor child, I replied, as gently as I could, just as any kind-hearted soldier is bound to speak to a prisoner, and especially to a woman. "'Alack! What will become of me! Senor Oficial, have pity on me! You are so young, so good-looking. Then, in a lower tone, she said, 'Let me get away, and I'll give you a bit of the bar lachi, that will make every woman fall in love with you!
"The bar lachi, sir, is the loadstone, with which the gipsies declare one who knows how to use it can cast any number of spells. If you can make a woman drink a little scrap of it, powdered, in a glass of white wine, she'll never be able to resist you. I answered, as gravely as I could: "'We are not here to talk nonsense. You'll have to go to prison.
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