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The very sight of him set all the ounces in Bob quivering in an outburst: "No chairs for us! You fork over Gonzalez's money that you tricked out of him!" "I take Gonzalez's money! I? Señores?" "It's a hundred and twenty dollars that he earned honestly, and the quicker you lay your hands on it the better for you!" Bob roared back. Pedro was quite impassive.
It was Shakespeare who said: "These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues;" and as the alcayde had been won over at the time of Gonzalez's first captivity, so now again Doña Sancha put her nimble wits to work and devised another plan for his release.
"Now, Pedro, you have Gonzalez's money, haven't you?" Jack went on, in the reasoning fashion that he had adopted to Leddy in the store. "And you aren't going to make yourself or Bob trouble. You are going to give it back!" "Sí, señor!" said Pedro wincing. While he was producing the money and counting it, his furtive glance kept watch of Jack.
Doña Sancha, the prospective bride of his ardent imagination, was no party to all this, for the rumors of Gonzalez's visit which had come to her ears had filled her with excitement, and she looked forward to his coming with no little fluttering of heart.
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