The book starts with Robert Jordan studying a region of mountain landscape behind rightist lines. He's a youthful (or youngish) American volunteer battling for the Republicans in the Spanish Common War. (The Republicans are the great folks, battling for flexibility, majority rules system, and the regular individuals.)
A flashback illuminates us he's been requested to explode an adjacent extension in three days' chance as a major aspect of an amazement assault on rightist powers there. (The fascists are the terrible folks, who incline toward military despots and well off landowners to the regular individuals.) The Fascists must not be permitted to get fortifications over the extension, thus Robert Jordan (with two major packs of explosives) has been tasked with obliterating it. In any case, he'll have to enlist a few men to bail him out, as there are two kept an eye on sentry posts on either side of the extension.
His aide in the region is…show more content… There's a hitch: to escape after the assault, everybody will require steeds, and the two groups don't have enough stallions for everybody. So El Sordo guarantees that he will take some additional steeds that night. In the wake of leaving El Sordo's, Robert and Maria spend the evening having "earth-moving" sex and choose they're truly enamored with each other.
It begins to snow as night methodologies. Back home at the hollow, Pablo's evidently tipsy. Another meeting between Robert Jordan and Pablo follows. It would seem that there may be a confrontation, however Pablo just answers and clears out. Before too long he returns and reports that his heart changed with the climate – he needs to help with the extension now. Later in the night the snow stops, which is terrible news: El Sordo's steed criminals will leave snow tracks back to their fort. Robert Jordan goes to rest, and Maria
