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178 DAYS IN THE SUN
pictures of Tolstoi, Kropotkin, and of all the assassins
of kings and presidents of recent years, together with
brief and vigorous reading matter which accorded well
with its agitational purpose.
My cane seemed quite heavy to him and he asked
whether it was a sword-cane.
“No,” I answered; “but the head is of lead. You
can give a good whack with it.” He looked at me very
seriously.
“I have never been in a position where I had to de-
fend myself against my fellow-men, or vice versa—”
“But aren’t you engaged in warfare on society?” I
interposed.
“Yes, I am making war on those in authority, that
is true; but not on my fellow-men. They are not do-
ing me any harm, and I believe I should rather die
than inflict any injury on any one of them. All per-
sons are good, after all, unless they have too much
power. I know the men in the mountains and I know
they are good. Don Louis, who comes from way off
near the Mediterranean is good too; and here are you
coming from way up north and you are like a brother
to me.”
The fact that he had had to borrow a second donkey
in addition to his own in order to take us back to
Granada and that he was walking the whole distance
himself in order to permit us to ride; in short, the
fact that he could not think of things enough to do for
us, these things meant for him that I was like a brother
to him. When I got off and tried to oblige him to
take my place on the animal, he declared he was freez-
ing with the cold, and that his physician had ordered
him to do as much walking as possible. He invented
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