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In the kitchen, Gertrudis wasn't having much<br />
success getting Sergeant<br />
Trevino to fix the syrup the way she wanted,<br />
no matter how many orders<br />
she gave him. She was sorry she had ever<br />
entrusted Trevitio with such<br />
an important mission; when she had asked a<br />
group of rebels who knew how<br />
much a pound was and he had fired back the<br />
answer that a pound was 460<br />
grams and a pint was a quarter of a liter, she<br />
thought he knew a lot<br />
about cooking, but he didn't.<br />
In fact, this was the first time Trevitio had<br />
ever failed in something<br />
with which she had entrusted him. She<br />
remembered one occasion when he<br />
had had to uncover a spy who had infiltrated<br />
the troop.<br />
A prostitute who was the spy's mistress had<br />
learned of his activities,<br />
and before she could denounce him, he had<br />
gunned her down<br />
cold-bloodedly. Gertrudis was returning from<br />
taking a bath in the<br />
river and found her in the throes of death.<br />
The prostitute managed to<br />
gasp out a clue to identifying him. The traitor<br />
had a red mole shaped<br />
like a spider between his legs.<br />
Gertrudis couldn't ask to inspect all the men<br />
in the troop, since not<br />
only could that be taken the wrong way, but<br />
the traitor could get<br />
suspicious and flee before they got to him.<br />
So she entrusted the<br />
mission to Trevillo.<br />
Even for him it was no easy task. What<br />
they'd think about him was<br />
worse than what they'd think about her if he<br />
went prying into the<br />
crotches of all the men in the troop. So the<br />
patient Trevino waited<br />
until they got to Saltillo.<br />
The minute they got to town he took on the<br />
job of going to every single<br />
brothel and gaining the confidence of every<br />
single prostitute, using<br />
who knew what kind of arts. But the main<br />
thing was that Trevitio<br />
always treated them like ladies, he made<br />
them feel like queens. He was<br />
gallant and cultivated1 he recited verses and<br />
poems while making love<br />
to them. Not a one had escaped his<br />
clutches, and they were all ready<br />
to work for the revolution.<br />
In that way, with the help of his friends the<br />
whores, it didn't take<br />
more than three days to uncover the traitor<br />
and set a trap for him.<br />
The traitor went into a room in the<br />
whorehouse with a peroxide blonde<br />
named "HuskyVoice." Trevino was waiting<br />
behind the door.<br />
Trevino kicked the door shut and then, in an<br />
unprecedented display of<br />
violence, he killed the traitor, by beating him<br />
to death. When there<br />
was no more life left in him, Trevillo cut off<br />
his testicles with a<br />
knife.<br />
When Gertrudis asked him why he had<br />
murdered him so brutally and not<br />
simply dispatched him with a bullet, he<br />
replied that it had been an act<br />
of revenge.<br />
Years ago, a man who had a red mole in the<br />
shape of a spider between<br />
his legs had raped his mother and his sister.<br />
The latter had confessed<br />
before dying. So by doing this Trevitio had<br />
restored the honor of his