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They galloped thus till night without exchanging a word. At sunset they reached a ruined _rancho_, standing like a sentry, on the skirt of the road. The adventurer made a sign and the riders pulled up their horses. A man came out of the _rancho_, looked at them, without saying a word, and then went in again. Some minutes elapsed; the man reappeared, but this time he came from behind the _rancho_, and was leading two horses by the bridle. These horses were saddled. The adventurer and Dominique leapt down, removed their _alforjas_ and pistols, placed them on the fresh horses and remounted. The man returned a second time with two other horses, which Loïck and López mounted. The man, still silent, collected the bridles of the four horses, and went off dragging them after him.
"Forwards! " don Jaime cried.