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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Why, it is simply this in the first place, for the reasons I have given, the fellow will hang around the settlement. He may visit now and then the old hechicera, but not often. The other would be a better decoy." "You mean her?" Vizcarra indicated the direction of the room in which Rosita was confined. "I do. He is said to be foolishly fond of this sister.
There were two other prisoners one of whom was regarded with an interest equal to that felt at the sight of the outlaw himself. This prisoner was his mother. Upon her the eyes of the multitude turned with an expression of awe mingled with indignation; while jeering and angry cries hailed her as she passed on her way to the Calabozo. "Muera la hechicera! muera!"
A strange-looking woman was seated in the bottom of the carreta an old woman, with long flowing hair, white as flax. She was silent, but her sharp eyes were bent upon the cibolero with a triumphant expression. Some regarded her with curiosity, but most with fear, akin to awe. These knew something of her, and whispered strange tales to one another. "Esta una bruxa! una hechicera!"
Latterly this feeling, concentrated on the mother of Carlos, had taken a new shape, and they looked upon her as a hechicera a witch and crossed themselves devoutly whenever she met them. This was not often, for it was rare that she made her appearance among the inhabitants of the valley.
The cibolero was not likely to have remained within the town. No doubt he was off once more to the Plains! The night search proved ineffectual; and in the morning the party that had gone down the valley returned, having found no traces either of Carlos, his sister, or his mother. It was known that the hechicera had died on the previous night, but where had the body been taken to?
Others than the ignorant could not fail to fancy her a being different from the common order. No wonder, then, that these regard her as "una hechicera!" Rosita knelt upon the floor, passing her little hand-shuttle through the cotton-woof.
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