Chapter 12

Barbarossa--Royalist-Republicans--Squaring a Girl--At Irun--"Your Papers?"--The Barber's Shop--A Carlist Spy--An Old Chum--The Alarm--A Breach of Neutrality--Under Fire--Caught in the Toils--The Heroic Thomas--We Slope--A Colleague Advises Me--"A Horse! a Horse!"--State of Bilbao--Don Carlos at Estella--Sanchez Bregua Recalled--Tolosa Invites--Republican Ineptitude--Do not Spur a Free Horse--Very Ancient Boys--Meditations in Bed--A Biscay Storm 269-299