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Here Don Telmo lowered his voice to an inaudible pitch and after a few words they separated. The espionage of the boarders became so obstructive to the men spied upon that the Biscayan and Don Telmo served notice on the landlady of their removal.
"Without a doubt," averred the Superman, "Don Telmo killed Dona Celsa Nebot; the Biscayan poured oil over the body and set it afire, and Roberto hid the jewels in the house on Amaniel Street." "That cold bird!" replied Celia. "What could he do?" "Nothing, nothing. We must keep on their track," said the curate. "And get some money out of that old Shylock," added the Superman.
This limitation of sides forced Roberto and Don Telmo into intimacy, so that the student changed his place at the table and sat next to the old man. One night, after eating, while Manuel was removing the service, the plates and the cups, Don Telmo and Roberto were engaged in conversation.
You think that this fortune that I'm to inherit is all a hoax." "I don't know." "Well, it isn't. The fortune exists. Do you remember I was once talking with Don Telmo, in your presence, about a conversation I had with a certain book-binder in his house?" "Yes, sir. I remember."
I am certain that the town where Fermin Nunez was born was either Arnedo or Autol." Don Telmo carefully inspected a large folio document: the genealogy of Roberto's family. "What course do you think I ought to pursue?" asked the student. "You need money; but it's so hard to find that!" muttered the old man. "Why don't you marry?" "And what good would that do?" "I mean some wealthy woman...."
When he went out he donned a long frock coat and a very tall silk hat; only on certain summer days would he wear a Havana hat of woven straw. For more than a month Don Telmo was the topic of conversation in the boarding-house.
Don Telmo had the features of a very sad man, one in profound sorrow. His livid countenance betrayed fathomless dejection. He wore his white beard and his hair short; his brows fell like brushes over his grey eyes. In the house he went around wrapped in a faded coat, with a Greek bonnet and cloth slippers.
Afterwards, when Don Telmo and Roberto were left alone at the table, they continued talking, and from the general theme as to whether young folk should or should not be ambitious, they passed on to the student's hopes of some day being a millionaire. "I'm convinced that I shall be one," said the boy. "In my family there have been a number of individuals with great luck."
It was also discovered that Don Telmo frequently paid visits to a very elegant, good looking young lady, who was, according to some, his sweetheart, and to others, his niece. On the following Sunday Manuel overheard a conversation between the old man and the student. In a dark room there was a transom that opened into Don Telmo's room, and from this position he played the eavesdropper.
Sheets, chemises, cloaks and all the other articles they robbed they would sell at the second-hand shop on La Ribera de Curtidores, which Don Telmo used to visit. The owner, employe or whatever he was of the shop, would purchase everything the thieves brought, at a very low price. He spent his whole life passing to and fro in front of his establishment.
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