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oiled water and some rags. With unfailing kindness, Camilla
provided him with all that he wanted.
As he began washing his foot, she sat beside him,
and, with typical mountaineer's curiosity, inquired:
"Tell me, who learned you how to cure people Why
did you boil that water Why did you boil the rags
Look, look, how careful you are about everything! And
what did you put on your hands Really. . . . And why
did you pour on alcohol I just knew alcohol was good
to rub on when you had a bellyache, but . . . Oh, I
see! So you was going to be a doctor, huh Ha, ha, that's
a good one! Why don't you mix it with cold water
Well, there's a funny sort of a trick. Oh, stop fooling
me . . . the idea: little animals alive in the water unless
you boil it! Ugh! Well, I can't see nothing in it myself."
Camilla continued to cross-question him with such familiarity
that she suddenly found herself addressing him
intimately, in the singular tu. Absorbed in his own
thoughts, Luis Cervantes had ceased listening to her.
He thought:
Where are those men on Pancho Villa's payroll, so
admirably equipped and mounted, who only get paid in
those pure silver pieces Villa coins at the Chihuahua
mint Bah! Barely two dozen half-naked mangy men,
some of them riding decrepit mares with the coat
nibbled off from neck to withers. Can the accounts
given by the Government newspapers and by myself be
really true and are these so-called revolutionists simply
bandits grouped together, using the revolution as a wonderful
pretext to glut their thirst for gold and blood
Is it all a lie, then Were their sympathizers talking a
lot of exalted nonsense
If on one hand the Government newspapers vied
with each other in noisy proclamation of Federal victory
after victory, why then had a paymaster on his way
from Guadalajara started the rumor that President
Huerta's friends and relatives were abandoning the capital
and scuttling away to the nearest port Was
Huerta's, "I shall have peace, at no matter what cost,"
a meaningless growl Well, it looked as though the