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ON the eastern side of the swamp the ground rose so gradually that it was possible, for the first time since the escape from the kula, to start the engine. The car's easy motion surprised and delighted the Albanians, who ran along beside it with cries of admiration. Giulika himself, old as he was, kept as good a pace as the younger men, and when Maurice invited him to enter the car he declined.
"Never in my life have I been carried by anything but a horse," he said, "and I am too old to try new things. Nothing but a horse shall carry me until I am borne to my grave."