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out, and escorted Inez, her parents, brothers and sister, 
to their home.'^' 
We pitched our tents just beyond the walls of the 
town, preferring them to the adobe houses which Gen- 
eral Conde had kindly placed at my disposition. 
* I have spoken of the father of Inez Gonzales. He was in fact, her 
step-father, and named Jesus Ortis. He seemed ardently attached to 
her, and told me he loved her as his own. 
