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The three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left a 5 -c-tip.

One night Maria's friends called the Mexico City police to No. 66. Inside, amid the dust of 50 years, were fine paintings and massive mahogany furniture. Also in the house were the bruised bodies of Angel and Miguel. Investigating the deaths, the police found the richest miser's hoard in their memory: $4,000,000 in deeds, bank notes and jewels, stuffed in drawers and between bedsprings.

Maria said that robbers killed Angel and Miguel. Why, then, asked the police, had the brigands left bags of jewels in the parlor? The press asked uglier questions, dug up the report that Brother Angel had once gone to the Pope in Rome for permission to marry his sister.

Last week the police locked up Maria.

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