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 graciously relaxed. Here, as elsewhere in Spain, the polished policemen of the Civil Guard, unlike ordinary policemen, seem to be always at hand. Two by two they always go, and when patrolling lonely roads, a regulation compels them to walk twelve paces distant one from the other, to prevent the possibility of being both surprised at the same instant by a hidden malefactor. There are about twenty thousand foot and five thousand mounted members of this corps, and every one of them as far as my experience goes is gentlemanly, honest, and courageous. Should one die in the discharge of duty, he knows that his orphaned children will be cared for by the government and educated in a college at Madrid. To the Civil Guard is due in a large measure the decrease in that brigandage, which at one time was the terror of the traveler in Spain.

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