Kingdoms have been won and lost for less than three million pesetas.

I believe he was watched in Cuba, and his return was known.

Or perhaps he was brought back by some clever forgery.

Who knows?
At all events, it was known that he had left his money nearly all to Leon." "We will ask Leon," suggested Marcos, "what reason his father gave for making a new will." "And he will lie to you," said Sarrion.
"But he will lie badly," murmured Marcos, with his leisurely reflective smile.
"I think," said Sarrion, after a pause, "nay, I feel sure that Francisco left his fortune to Juanita at the last moment, as a forlorn hope--leaving it to you and me to get her out of the hobble in which he placed her.

You know it was always his hope that you and Juanita should marry." But Marcos' face hardened, and he had nothing to say to this reiteration of the dead man's hope.