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Negra found his horsemen still searching in the mud and darkness for the lost ducats, and made an attempt to reorganize his band, which did, indeed, do a little maurauding on its own account; but when the news reached him, through one of his paid spies, that four hundred infantry with a cannon had reached Szászvár from Szeb -- the very word "a connon" had such an effect upon the robbers that they scattered in every direction as if a tempest had dispersed them.

The Poor Plutocrats M��r J��kai 1864