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Updated: June 11, 2025
The bookkeeper, a jaundiced fellow with an emaciated face and a beard like that of a monumental Jew, exceedingly taciturn and timid, had burst into speech in his excitement over the intrigues invented and fancied in the life of Don Telmo; now he became from moment to moment sallower than ever with his hypochondria. Don Telmo's departure was paid for by the student and Don Manuel.
"I should say so. Well, young man, let me know what you wish. It's enough for me that you come from Don Telmo; that assures you my best services." "I should like to learn the whereabouts of a certain girl acrobat who lived about five or six years ago in a lodging-house of this vicinity, or in Cuco's hostelry." "And do you know this girl's name?" "Yes."
It was close enough to stifle a person; it was impossible to breathe or to take a step without stumbling against something. "Are you Senor Zurro?" asked Roberto. "Yes." "I have come at the suggestion of Don Telmo." "Don Telmo!" repeated the old man, rising and offering the student a chair. "Have a seat. How is the good gentleman?" "Very well." "He's an excellent friend of mine," continued Zurro.
The student was an aristocratic type with blond hair, thick and combed back, and moustache of glittering white, like silver; his skin was somewhat tanned by the sun. "Won't you continue?" asked Don Telmo. "No," answered the student, staring at the salesman. "For I don't want anybody to hear what I have to say." "Come to my room, then," replied Don Telmo. "There we can talk undisturbed.
"So he refuses to furnish any more data?" Don Telmo was asking. "Absolutely," said the student. "And he assures me that the reason for the name of Fermin de Nunez de Latona not appearing in the parish register was forgery; that this was effected by a certain Shaphter, one of Bandon's agents, and that afterwards the curates took advantage of it to acquire possession of some chaplaincies.
He knocked at Don Telmo's door and was resolved to linger there as long as possible, that he might catch all he could of the conversation. He began to dust Don Telmo's lamp-table with a cloth. "And how did you ascertain that," Don Telmo was asking, "if your family didn't know it?" "Quite by accident," answered the student.
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