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I thought, too, that in existing circumstances the less I had to do with officers the better. But I did not like the idea of going away without fulfilling my promise to call on Zamorra's old friend, Don Señor Ulloa. "Si, señor," said the posadero, giving me a queer look, and exchanging significant glances with two or three of his guests who were within earshot.
Do you think we could find that mountain of gold and precious stones you were telling me about?" "I never entertained any idea so absurd. I merely mentioned poor old Zamorra's crank as an instance of how credulous people could be." "Well, perhaps the idea is not quite so absurd as you suppose.
He did so, and, except my passport, found nothing whatever of a documentary, much less of a compromising character. He then searched me, and took possession of Zamorra's unlucky letter to Ulloa and my memorandum-book, in which, however, there were merely a few commonplace notes and scientific jottings.
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