rising sun found hanging across once-peaceful

streets, where they had been born and bred; also, there were other

villagers and townspeople less fortunate than the mender of roads

and his fellows, upon whom the functionaries and soldiery turned

with success, and whom they strung up in their turn. But, the

fierce figures were steadily wending East, West, North, and South,

be that as it would; and whosoever hung, fire burned. The altitude