They were people of influence in that city, and Saragossa, strange to say, had a desire to maintain law and order within its walls.

It was unlike Barcelona, which is at all times republican and frankly turbulent.

Its other neighbour, Pampeluna, remains to this day clerical and mysterious.

It is the city of the lost causes; Carlism and the Church.

The Sarrions were not looked upon with a kindly eye within the walls of the Northern fortress and it is much too small a town for any to pass unobserved in its streets.
There was work to do in Saragossa.