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IT was still early morning when the Gadfly came within sight of the valley in which lay the Alvarez hacienda. The journey of some six-score miles had taken a little more than half an hour.
There had been a consultation between the boys and Señora Alvarez upon the steps to be taken on their arrival. Pedro was for coming down in the grounds of the hacienda and turning out the gendarmes by main force; but Derrick pointed out that they had only two revolvers among them all.