First Ten Pages Missing Murray was rudely awakened from his sleep by a Catalunian who claimed to be a guide and who told him they would start at five o'clock. When asked for the countersign, he immediately produced a document which Murray honored. He and the guide set out to cross the French Pyrences with all of Murray's military baggage cleverly disguised by the guide. On Aug. 23, 1873 they reached the Spanish frontier and stepped unarmed into Republican Spain. Soon they reached a small village occupied by Republican troops, in which the majority of the people are Communists. With their pace slowed considerably so as not to attract attention they safely passed through the village of the enemy and finally reached Carlist ground where Murray's sword and uniform were donned. The last time he had put on his sword was three years previous in the Square of St. Peter's. Murray's guide left him and he continued on alone to meet the Carlists, to whom the Sacred Heart and the Cross of Pius IX is familiar. That night the Carlist column moved off, and Murray finding a Catalan guide, made negotiations for his baggage to have it sent to headquarters, and caught up with the troops. After passing through Pablala Fillet, a Carlist town, the troops reached level land but on the march passed very close to a town occupied by a large force of Republicans. These Republicans, intimidated by numerous defeats did not venture from the walls of the town. At Baga, where the troops joined another small Carlist group from Berga, they all heard Mass.