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VIII THE SPANISH DOUBLOON
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On the whole, Pancho Cueto's plans had worked smoothly1. After denouncing the Varona twins as traitors2 he had managed to have himself appointed trustee for the crown, for all their properties, consummation for which he had worked from the moment he read that letter of Esteban's on the morning after Dona Isabel's death. To be sure, the overseer had acquired title, of a sort, to the plantation4 by paying the taxes over a period of years, but it was the quinta itself which he desired, the Quinta de Esteban with its hidden gold. That there was a treasure Cueto had never doubted, and, once the place was his to do with as he chose, he began his search.
Cueto was a tireless, thorough-going man, therefore he did not set about his explorations in the haphazard5 manner of Dona Isabel. Commencing at the lower edge of the grounds, he ripped them up with a series of deep trenches6 and cross-cuts. It was a task that required the labor7 of many men for several weeks, and when it was finished there was scarcely a growing thing left upon the place. Only a few of the larger trees remained. Cueto was disappointed at finding nothing, but he was not discouraged. Next he tore down the old slave barracoons and the outbuildings, after which he completely wrecked8 the residence itself. He pulled it apart bit by bit, brick by brick. He even dug up its foundations, but without the reward of so much as a single peseta. Finally, when the villa9 was but a heap of rubbish and the grounds a scar upon the slope of La Cumbre, he desisted, baffled, incredulous, while all Matanzas laughed at him. Having sacrificed his choicest residence, he retired10 in
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craftily
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conceal
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tattered
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emancipation
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hawk
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exacting
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焦躁的,附有弦马的,腐蚀的 | |
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groan
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