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Updated: June 8, 2025
It remains for you to get this young man out of the way. I have my reasons for wishing it so among others, he knows our secret. I gave you a half onza to save his life. To-day I have different views regarding him; and I promise to give you twenty onzas when I am assured that he is no longer alive."
With a low cry of surprise, Juan gazed at the glittering coins; then, with feverish fingers, he took up a handful and examined them carefully, for he had never seen the Spanish onza, and did not know its value.
He well knew what all the good things he had brought to eat had cost one whole onza gold to keep on good terms with nephew! And he bent over, and sunk his hands into the baskets between his legs. "Well, candy it is!"
When he ate his eleven o'clock breakfast with Adam and the President in the arcade, he took out the coin and told them about the shopkeeper's refusal to take it back. "A Spanish onza," Adam remarked. "Worth nearly five pounds in English money, but a collector might give you more if it's as old as it looks.
"I imagine you made up for that while you were away," said Gerald, who rose and went to the side-board. "A curious little jar and obviously old! Is this the kind of thing the Aztecs made?" "I rather think it is Aztec, though I didn't buy it in Mexico. I gave about a pound for the jar and found a gold onza inside." "An onza? Oh, yes, an ounce!
The girl stretched forth her hand to receive it, but he still held it fast, gazing intently and rudely upon her. "Lovely senorita," he said, "may I not kiss that pretty hand that has been so kind to me?" "Sir! please return me the cup." "Nay, not till I have paid for my drink. You will accept this?" He dropped a gold onza into the gourd.
Garcia stood scowling for a few moments but not meeting my eye, and I continued addressing the notary: "Give me full particulars of this amount, and I will pay it." "You, Harry you!" exclaimed my uncle. "You! you vile impostor! You beggar and vagabond! You do not possess an onza of gold," roared Garcia, bursting forth into a fit of vituperation.
Carlos regarded the purse for a moment without making answer. He was evidently gratified by the noble offer. His countenance showed that he was deeply touched by the kindness of the youth. "No," said he, at length; "no, Don Juan. I thank you with all my heart, but I cannot take your purse one onza, nothing more. I should like to stake one against the Comandante."
"And I another onza!" added the Comandante. "Senores," said Carlos, with an air of apparent regret, "I am sorry I cannot take both. This doubloon is all I have in the world; and it's not likely I could borrow another just now." As he said this Carlos regarded the crowd with a smile, but many of these were in no humour for smiling.
The performance over, the platform drawn up, and the family reassembled in the Green Box, Ursus opened and emptied on the supper-table the bag of receipts. From a heap of pennies there slid suddenly forth a Spanish gold onza. "Hers!" cried Ursus. The onza amidst the pence covered with verdigris was a type of the lady amidst the crowd.
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