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It is never difficult to enter a trap, and Matanzas was precisely that There were soldiers everywhere, but beyond an indifferent challenge at the outer blockhouse, a perfunctory question or two, Narciso and Juan Villar experienced no trouble whatever in passing the lines Discipline, never strict at best, was extre the roads, and, since these two refugees were too poor to warrant search, they aved onward by the sentries They obeyed silently; in ai toward the heart of the city Alauntlet and had joined that ar The hand of Spain had closed over them