On reading this letter Cæsar felt as if he had been struck with a whip. Those men were correct; he had no right to retire from the fight.
This conviction supported him.
“I have to go to Castro,” he said to Amparito.
“But didn’t you say that...?”
“Yes, but it is impossible.”
Amparito realized that her husband’s decision was final, and she said:
“All right; let us go to Castro.”
XVII. FIRST VICTORY
The Conservatives had come into power; the time to change the town government was approaching. It was customary at Castro, as in all rural districts in Spain, that in a period of Liberal administration the majority of the councillors elected should be Liberal, and at a time of Conservative government, they should be Conservative.