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Updated: May 14, 2025
For this fiery little priest knew more of the unwritten history of the macquis than any in Corsica infinitely more than those whose business it was. It is the custom at Ajaccio, and in a smaller way at Bastia, to ignore the darker side of Corsican politics, and the French officials are content with the endeavour to get through their term of office with a whole skin.
When he was near to the entrance of the defile he stood in the middle of the road and gave, in his high clear voice, the cry of the goat-herd calling his flock. He gave it twice, and then repeated it. If there were any in the macquis within a mile of him they could not fail to see him as he stood on the dusty road in the sunlight. He was not disappointed.
But they overrun that country now, which is no doubt the reason why you have never been there." "Pardon me I was there when the war broke out two months ago." "Ah! We never heard that in the macquis, though the Abbe Susini must have known it. He knows so much that he does not tell that abbe." "Which makes him the strong man he is, mon ami."
Should the gendarmes of Cauro, where there is a strong station, see this fugitive, so evidently from the macquis, with all the signs of outlawry upon him, they would fire upon him without hesitation. Also he might at any moment fall from the saddle and be dragged by the stirrup.
He went straight on instead, by the track which ultimately leads to Corte, in the middle of the island, and amidst the high mountains. This is one of the loneliest spots in all the lonely island, where men may wander for days and never see a human being. The macquis is thin here, and not considered a desirable residence.
The air of houses choked him, as sooner or later it seems to choke sailors and wanderers who have known what it is to be in the open all night, sleeping or waking beneath the stars, not by accident as an adventure, but by habit. Then the abbe would disappear for days together from Olmeta, and vanish into that mystic, silent, prowling world of the macquis.
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