I understand that my mission ends at this rock.' And she said: 'I know this rock well.

This is my country.' "Then she thanked me for bringing her there and presently three peasants appeared, waiting for us, two youths and one shaven old man, with a thin nose like a sword blade and perfectly round eyes, a character well known to the whole Carlist army.

The two youths stopped under the trees at a distance, but the old fellow came quite close up and gazed at her, screwing up his eyes as if looking at the sun.

Then he raised his arm very slowly and took his red _boina_ off his bald head.

I watched her smiling at him all the time.