Sebastian Dolores
explained his own workman's dress as having been necessary for his
escape.
Only one person gave Jean Jacques any warning. This was the captain of
the Antoine. He was a Basque, he knew the Spanish people well--the types,
the character, the idiosyncrasies; and he was sure that Sebastian Dolores
and his daughter belonged to the lower clerical or higher working class,
and he greatly inclined towards the former. In that he was right, because
Dolores, and his father before him, had been employed in the office of a
great commercial firm in Cadiz, and had repaid much consideration by
stirring up strife and disloyalty in the establishment. But before the
anarchist subtracted himself from his occupation, he had appropriated
certain sums of money, and these had helped to carry him on, when he
attached himself to the revolutionaries. It was on his daughter's savings
that he was now travelling, with the only thing he had saved from the
downfall, which was his head. It was of sufficient personal value to make
him quite cheerful as the Antoine plunged and shivered on her way to the
country where he could have no steady work as a revolutionist.
With reserve and caution the Basque captain felt it his duty to tell Jean
Jacques of his suspicions, warning him that the Spaniards were the
choicest liars in the world, and were not ashamed of it; but had the same
pride in it as had their greatest rivals, the Arabs and the Egyptians.
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