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For
your own witness stated this, that when our party were flying through fear, he had pointed
them out the way by which they might escape. Does no violence appear to have been offered to
men who not only fled, but who even asked of a stranger which way they could flee with safety?
Why, then, did they flee? Out of fear. What did they fear? Violence, of course. Can you then
deny the first facts when you admit the last? You confess, that they fled because they were
frightened; you say the cause of their flight was that which we all
understand,—namely, arms, a multitude of men, an attack and onset of armed men. When
all this is admitted to have taken place, shall violence be denied to have been offered?
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