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For two weeks thereafter Seyd held fast to his work, suppressing with iron firmness successive vagrant impulses which urged a second visit to San Nicolás. Then having proved to himself his perfect indifference toward Francesca, he rode down one day -- strictly on business -- to ask Don Luis's assistance in obtaining more men and mules.
"I shall return this evening," he arranged with Conscience, starting out.