One Hundred Years of Solitude

the pretext that they were
making some drainage canals
in the courtyard and the
backyard, and he himself took
soundings in the earth with
iron bars and all manner of
metal-detectors without
finding anything that
resembled gold in three
months of exhaustive
exploration. Later on he went
to Pilar Ternera with the hope
that the cards would we more
than the diggers, but she