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Next day two Socialists were killed and four wounded by machine-gun bullets from a speeding car presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia...
...later at Santander a crowd of black-bereted Basques rose gasping to their feet as the great Belmonte was tossed, gored in the thigh by another bull. He was not seriously hurt, was able to finish the fight. Less fortunate was another veteran of Belmonte's generation, Ignacio Sanchez Mejia. Also attempting a come back at Manzanares, he was so badly gored that despite operations and blood transfusions, he died...
...Antonio Sanchez raced to his home. In a few minutes he was back at the market with a faded red muleta and, wrapped in its folds, the blade of his favorite sword. The market men cheered...
Under the blinking street lamps Antonio Sanchez stood, heels together, muleta waist high. The cape fluttered and the bull charged, once, twice. Then just like old times Antonio Sanchez sighted along the blade and thrust home...
...bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...