Note {134-7} — Front matter (continued 3)
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7.{134-7} cuarenta mil reales de renta; how many pesetas, and how many American dollars, is this? The salaries of government employes in Spain are popularly reckoned in reales. It should be borne in mind that a peseta would probably buy as much in Spain when this story was written, as a dollar will buy to-day in the United States.