The Alhambra . s vicinity, and drove a thriving business under the connivanceof the soldiers of the garrison. The vigilance of the captain-general was aroused. He con-sulted his legal adviser and factotum, a shrewd meddlesomeescribano^ or notary, who rejoiced in an opportunity of perplex-ing the old potentate of the Alhambra, and involving him in amaze of legal subtleties. He advised the captain-general toinsist upon the right of examining every convoy passing through THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY 353 the gates of his city, and penned a long letter for him in vin-dication of the right. Governor
The Alhambra . s vicinity, and drove a thriving business under the connivanceof the soldiers of the garrison. The vigilance of the captain-general was aroused. He con-sulted his legal adviser and factotum, a shrewd meddlesomeescribano^ or notary, who rejoiced in an opportunity of perplex-ing the old potentate of the Alhambra, and involving him in amaze of legal subtleties. He advised the captain-general toinsist upon the right of examining every convoy passing through THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY 353 the gates of his city, and penned a long letter for him in vin-dication of the right. Governor Manco was a straightforwardcut-and-thrust old soldier, who hated an escribano worsethan the devil, and this one in particular worse than all otherescribanos. What 1 said he, curling up his moustaches fiercely, doesthe captain-general set his man of the pen to practise confusionsupon me ? Ill let him see an old soldier is not to be baffledby Schoolcraft. He seized his pen and scrawled a short letter in a crabbed.
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