One Hundred Years of Solitude

Who is this fellow? he
asked:

The magistrate, Úrsula
answered disconsolately.
They say hes an authority
sent by the government.

            Don Apolinar    Moscote,    the

magistrate, had arrived in
Macondo very quietly. He put
up at the Hotel Jacob-built by
one of the first Arabs who
came to swap knickknacks
for macaws-and on the