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Grierson refilled the magazine of his rifle carefully—when you aredealing with South American patriots it is better to take no chances,even though the enemy has retreated—then he wiped a couple ofhalf-dried blood spots off his cheek, and, after that, went over towhere lay the body of the man from whom that same blood had spurted.
For a full minute he stood very still, gazing with sombre eyes at