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A fortnight had gone by.
Ten o'clock in the morning in the Puerta del Sol, that great plaza in Madrid -- the fine square which, like the similarly-named gates at Toledo and Segovia, commands a view of the rising sun, as does the ancient Temple of Abu Simbel on the Nile.