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"No, but it was written on Thursday. That is the day that the colchonero goes to the Calle de la Dormitaleria." He drew a strand of wool from the envelope and showed it to Sarrion. "And the day that Mon returned to Pampeluna. He will be prompt to act. He always has been. That is what makes him different from other men. Prompt and restless."
And all the while, from the moment that the mattress is open till the heap is complete, the two sticks never cease playing their thin and woody air so that any within hearing may know that the "colchonero" is at work. It is then that he gossips. In a Southern land such a worker as this must always have an audience, and the children hail with delight the coming of the mattress-maker.
She did not know that this was one of Marcos' friends that in the summer this colchonero took the road with his packet of cigarettes and two sticks and wandered from village to village in the mountains beating the mattresses of the people and seeing the wondrous works of God as these are only seen by such as live all day and sleep all night beneath the open sky.
For nuns have a profound distrust of man as a mass and a confiding faith in the few individuals with whom they have to deal. The girls were allowed to watch the colchonero at his work, more especially the elder girls such as Juanita de Mogente and her friend Milagros of the red-gold hair.
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