text:  A few shots fired at random or the rage and roar of the crowd as we scattered them right and left in our gallop were all that belonged to personal adventure; and when the dawn showed us from one of the hills round the capital the quiet city glittering in the first sunshine all looked so lovely and so tranquil that it required the desperate recollections of the night to believe in the existence of a vast and powerful combination prepared to cover the land with burning and blood