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"What money is that?" asked the man behind the window shortly. "Our money for work on railroad. Senor Worth was to pay. El Superintendente say pay to-day sure. He no come. You sabe?" "I sabe that Worth won't pay." "No?" "No. He has no money here." The Mexicans exchanged glances. "No money? You are quite sure, Senor?" "Sure." "Gracias, Senor. Adios!"
"Once a capitao, always a capitao," the Brazilian insisted. Then he hinted: "If the capitao and his friends wish to call upon the superintendente they will find him in the intendencia, the blue building beyond the hotel. It will soon be closed for the day." The tall American's keen gray eyes roved down the street to the weather-beaten house whose peeling walls once might have been blue.
By the cedula of the 23rd March, 1812, the island was divided into three Intendencias or Provincias; those of the Havannah, Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba, of which the respective length from east to west is about ninety, seventy and sixty-five sea-leagues. The intendant of the Havannah retains the prerogatives of Superintendente general subdelegado de Real Hacienda de la Isla de Cuba.
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