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...Yah," whispered the old man eagerly...
...Yah, Yah, Marquesita ..." In a letter to a Spanish weekly, one Marqués de Castelvel, whose hobby is heraldry, pointed out that the title Escalona del Valle did not and never had existed in Spain. Newspapers sent their far-flung reporters scurrying. They found that there was no mansion in San Sebastián, no ranch in Andalusia, no palace in Seville, no stocks and no cash. When Valencia's Bureau of Criminal Investigation stepped in, the whole truth emerged: Faustino was not even a lawyer, but a law student who had flunked out; his documents were...
Last week would-be Lawyer Faustino was in jail. Would-be Marchioness Carmen Trigo had a new job scrubbing floors in a Valencia hospital. She had sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
Dazzled by such repartee, Aniela, the Polish hired girl, soon said yah...
...another of twelve trials. The main show, at which "hundreds" were condemned to death, took place at the Municipal Sports Stadium. It began with the spectators singing a romantic ballad from Chairman Mao Tse-tung's favorite drama, The White-Haired Woman.* Then Police Chief Ho Yah read the charges against the accused. The audience responded with the usual chants of hate and death. An actress emerged from the crowd, accused her father of heinous crimes, including rape, and demanded his death. The prisoners were loaded in trucks and driven off to execution grounds. The youths of the city...