" "Yes." "And your endless watch over the Carlists?" "They are making good use of their time, I hear," replied Marcos, with the grave appreciation of a good fighter for a worthy foe.

She recked nothing of the Carlists, of the disturbed country through which she had to pass.

"The Carlists are abroad, my friend, and I, who am a man of peace must get within the city walls.

The boom of the distant guns disputing the advance of the Carlists; while nearer, the bugles called the men to arms and the heavy tramp of feet came and went in the Calle de la Dormitaleria.

"The Carlists are really out?"

The Carlists have decided to besiege it.

"They thought we were the Carlists.

They took us for Carlists.

"They are the Carlists.

" The driver scratched his head and made known his views as to the ancestory of the Carlists.

"Are we going nearer to the Carlists?"

"Perhaps the Carlists have been here.

What are you doing abroad at this hour ... the Carlists?" "Yes," answered Marcos, rather quickly, "the Carlists.

What are you doing abroad at this hour ... the Carlists?" "Yes," answered Marcos, rather quickly, "the Carlists.

The Carlists were waiting for their skirmishers to come in from heights above the road.

On the bridge, the little knot of men awaited the advent of the Carlists forming up round the corner.

All the while the Carlists came on.

The last of the Carlists were on it now.

They found him among the Carlists, There were five or six priests.

" CHAPTER XXX THE CASTING VOTE There is in one corner of the little churchyard of Torre Garda a square mound which marks the burial-place, in one grave, of four hundred Carlists.

General Pacheco completed his teaching at the mouth of the valley where the Carlists had left in a position (impregnable from the front) a strong detachment to withstand the advance of any reinforcements that might be sent from Pampeluna to the relief of Captain Zeneta and his handful of men.

The Carlists will see to it that our cause triumphs.

The Carlists, seeing a favorable opportunity, plunged the Basque provinces, Navarra, Cataluña, lower Aragón, and part of Castilla and Valencia, into civil war.

Royalists, Carlists, Liberals, Reformists, Unionists, Moderates, and men of other political parties disputed over the direction of the nation's affairs at the point of the sword, and as each party obtained an ephemeral victory it hastened to send its partizans to govern these islands.

Of this class was a contribution of half a million pesos toward the expenses of the war with the Carlists to secure the succession of Isabel II, and Sunday collections for the benefit of the Spanish soldiers in Cuba, for the sufferers by the inundations in Murcia, the earthquakes in Andalusia, etc.