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"I don't want to break the rule of silence you<br />
have imposed, so as a<br />
secret between us, I'm going to ask you to<br />
write the reason you won't<br />
talk on that wall over there as soon as I<br />
leave, all right?<br />
Tomorrow, I will divine the words before your<br />
eyes."<br />
What the doctor neglected to tell Tita, of<br />
course, was that one of the<br />
properties of phosphorus was that it would<br />
glow in the dark, revealing<br />
what she had written on the wall. He had no<br />
real need of this<br />
subterfuge to know what she was thinking,<br />
but he thought it would be a<br />
good way for Tita to start communicating with<br />
the world again, if only<br />
in writing. John could see she was ready.<br />
When the doctor left, Tita<br />
took the phosphorus and went up to the wall.<br />
That night, when John Brown entered the<br />
laboratory, he was pleased to<br />
see the writing on the wall, in firm<br />
phosphorescent letters: "Because I<br />
don't want to.<br />
With those words Tita had taken her first step<br />
toward freedom.<br />
Meanwhile, she was staring up at the ceiling,<br />
unable to stop thinking<br />
of John's words: was it possible for her soul<br />
to stir again?<br />
With her whole being she wanted to believe<br />
that it was.<br />
She had to find someone who could kindle<br />
her desire.<br />
Could that someone be John? She was<br />
remembering the pleasant sensation<br />
that ran through her body when he took her<br />
hand in the laboratory.<br />
No.<br />
She wasn't sure.<br />
The only thing she was absolutely sure about<br />
was that she did not want<br />
to return to the ranch. She never wanted to<br />
live near Mama Elena<br />
again.<br />
TO BE CONTINUED Next month's recipe.<br />
Ozc-Tad Soup CHAPTER SEVEN. July..<br />
Ox-Thil &tp INGREDIENTS 2 ox taiu 2 cloy<br />
garlic 4 tomato&i 1/4 kilo<br />
trin; beam 2potato 4 chiC mont<br />
PREPARATION The cut-up ox tails are<br />
placed in a pan to cook with a chunk of<br />
onion, a clove of garlic, and<br />
salt and pepper to taste. It is advisable to<br />
add a little more water<br />
than you normally would, since you are<br />
making a soup. A good soup<br />
that's worth something has to be soupy<br />
without getting watery.<br />
Soups can cure any illness, whether physical<br />
or mental-at least, that<br />
was Chencha's firm belief, and Tita's too,<br />
although she hadn't given<br />
sufficient credit to it for quite some time. But<br />
now it would have to<br />
be accepted as the truth.<br />
About three months ago, after tasting a<br />
spoonful of soup that Chencha<br />
had made and brought to Dr. John Brown's<br />
house, Tita had returned to<br />
her senses.<br />
She was at her high post in the window,<br />
looking through the glass at
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