Ms. Freire was an anguished, invalid and moody, with wrinkles that explained the passage of their emotions and their very deep grooves forgotten woman smiles. He was 79 and kept that stubborn old ladies, formerly dominated the cry and the sermon he sought to repair the detachment of the people to the Catholic practices.
Mrs. daughters were two young ladies, very attached to the skull hair slicked brown porter and an older girl who had no luck in marriage. They were known in the village and perhaps best known characters was the story wrapped in the weekend incident that brought together the most sincere fears could be used to subject children to bed early.
The family of five objected to address every Saturday. That Sunday leaving for work they did not please at all. The bad old times facing consisted of work and offered its employees a miserable pay, but a weekend full to rest peacefully.
Which it was also attributed to the children as they were also part of the team of the Hacienda Freire.
The largest, took care of the house work properly; young it monitored and accompany sombrerones the field and taught them basic arithmetic and calculations to specify resources; more girls were in charge of cleaning lady home and eleven cats as pets had Freire.
On Sunday one soda fountain was inaugurated in the capital and the two were prestísimas and anxious jovencillas the event, urging that most convinced the mother to let them go. The youngest wanted to invite a girl who also lived in the Treasury and which was very much in love. The largest, worried that her mother rejected the request and refused them outputs, formulated a strategy to execute wisely.
Saturday arrived and all the restless finance the mystery with which handled the eldest daughter were attentive to what is resolved. In the morning, when the mother asked daily bath tub, most interviewed her, saying that things were in perfect condition and that even were improvements in the week. There were two pregnant mares news that the wheat was already nothing to burst. Consuming their attention on good news, the old pleased received when the girls liked to wipe his gray hair and the sun still rest on their legs.
With a half-smile he accepted the departure of the man muchachillas and be absent from home until Sunday. A most he granted an exit but also forced him to promise that he would return before dark. A waiter wearing employee engineer machines ranch, invited the older sister for coffee, so anxious and distressed accepted without hesitation and let the appointment was made at 4, the time when her mother He took a snack.
After finishing the last bite, Freire reluctantly, regretting he let her go, goodbye to his daughter and ask her to take her to the room laid her down. He locked his cats and watched until he had slept. The anxious woman fixed her hair, dressed entalcó cheekbones and sky blue suit he loved. She rushing left the house, taking the boy in the car and looking back, where the window of his mother glowed with the reflection of the orange sun.
That night the coffee was accompanied by a dance and a dinner dance and dinner a walk in the park. The sun had been in the depths of the night when the woman realized that her mother had severely sentenced him not missing home after dark. Making the nerve wrinkle the forehead, copious he asked the waiter to come home and help him get as soon as possible.
The return was silent. The night had settled in the bushes that formed the entrance veredita of Finance. The black iron gate was closed and fixtures of the walls of the door were extinguished. There was no one. The jovencillas it must have been with some of his classmates from school and would soon arrive. The frantic woman esculcó their pockets, the handbag and even ridiculous hat that adorned her hair swirling and nothing ... The keys had forgotten him indoors.
The waiter offered him asylum at home but the woman constrained refused the invitation and decided to stand on the door until someone could open and let him receive the angry sermon to his mother. The moon inclined spherical luminous presence next to the horizon and stretched their last blankets and dark night. Birds began with a shy concert in the distance and the morning breeze attenuated the early bird silence of the countryside.
When dawn came riding the foreman and two midwives who served in the kitchen of the house. Seeing the woman, they urged swift passage and opened the huge black wrought iron gate. They ran to the door of wood and limpid crystals forming a stained glass mosaic of Archangel Michael, they noticed a shadow that was attached to the pair of the door. When open, the presence dissipated, but felt in the air, heavy cold they received the house that something welcoming them to the place.
The young waiter arrived a few hours later while riding. In the distance he saw a human figure dressed in a black blanket that covered his whole body lying on the road side. Prodded and fearful, he stepped forward and asked if the firm and fierce person who was surrendered to costs of land and road dust was all right. Receiving no response, bravo tiny dark mustache and hair shiny and uniform and threw him to turn you gave macabre surprise to find her mother dusted to the mouth on the floor with a hideous smile and eyes glazed gray. Altered took the gap and mounted his horse, swiftly bringing it home to give you the help and evil despite their sisters.
Arriving shuddered at the sight of the two little girls dissolved into tears, with pink lace outfits and white chintz guantecillos they used to when they left party, they hugged him and telling him that mom was dead. But how? Do you already know? Anyone else had found? Why they had not brought him, why not help him?
The girls told him that back home, a lady rode with them in the car foreman who collected them in the house of one of the classmates and fifteen minutes from one of the girls ride gently asked where he was going to the dear woman, the time did not resolve the question, the other girl her a serious look and phlegmatic, rough, like someone suffering from pneumonia or tonsillitis coming out of that unknown hooded giggle was heard. The foreman stopped and asked the girls who chattered and his surprise, the door, the old woman out of the car and stood in front of him, showing his cadaverous face and skeletal figure. It was the patron, but without being it. I stood!
Upon entering the bedroom, as imposed by the body and forbade her tiny step but burly brother. He asked to stay away and closed in their faces the bedroom door. In muffled cry he pulled himself together and went out closing the door behind him. He led his brothers and restless workers into the living source of the small garden and explained that her mother had died. It was cold and lifeless when she came to shudder in her lap and the worst was his face darkened and disembodied, with a stiff look of terror buried in it.
The woman had reflux and heartburn afternoon came to the throat, causing vomiting and stomach pain. He tried to re-enter and take his wheelchair, but he overcame the strength and fell to the ground. They spent a few hours when curious cats and surrounded him anxious and weak woman with hand wringing them away randomly. One cat climbed on his back and dug her teeth into the flabby flesh of women, tearing a piece of his old skin and beginning the feast of the poor still living alone.
Cats ate her face and she died being eaten alive. Confused and horrified son ran to where his horse was dead old woman and was surprised to see that the horse was not in the Treasury. He reached into the cornfields, on the banks of the forest and outside the property, but saw nothing.
The girls were married a few years later and joined the youth ranks of Alvaro Obregon. Most watched sell the Treasury and made a nichito in Chihuahua City, but say none has been spared seeing his mother appearing at night, evening or day, reminding suffered neglect and haunt their lives. The son gave him a shot in the chest, distracted, by hiding behind a perforated wall of bullets and smoke soot adhered to the painted lime.
He looked at his mother dragged to his side, his face showing the waste bones gnawed face and skin, emitting a muffled cries and moans and forcing him to flee ye still show the enemy that you testified a bullet in the chest, dropping languished and died in the hot and dusty ground.
An older sister, has appeared to him at night when very fearful closes the door, he makes sure that overlooked the little garden, watching falling cats foams, scared or dead from the terrace where his mother was allowed to warm legs with the sun and watch in horror climb in the old horseshoe garden, advancing rapidly with erratic movements avalanzándose on her, forcing her to submit to not force open the door that separates the garden and its dead mother.
Of the girls I do not know much, but the wedding day of one of them, I noticed a black woman get to the carriage in which the couple were going to their party at the ranch and in the party and the girl He stopped smiling all night and groom, was distracted, pale and with little appetite.