Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Author:Margaret Wise Brown [Brown, Margaret Wise]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Childrens, Classics
ISBN: 9780694003617
Google: S8_NugAACAAJ
Amazon: 0064430170
Goodreads: 32929
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1947-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"Has he surrendered his pursuit of the devil now?" he asked Juan Vogel, grinning patronizingly.

"Who?" asked Juan Vogel brusquely.

"Your cousin," Celestino answered, gesturing with chin and lips toward Adán again.

"What cousin? What about my cousin?"

"Martinillo," Celestino said weakly. He cleared his throat. "Martinillo," he said louder.

"Me? What do you want, Celestino?" Adán said, raising his head to stare at Celestino. "Don't be inbred. Ask me your questions. I'm at your service."

"I thought if he has surrendered he might be going home," Celestino said to Juan Vogel. "Since I just came from his house I know more about his woman and children than he does. A pretty woman like that, left all alone, can be prey for all who hunt in the Sierra, even though the 'Lord Hunter' is supposed to be her protector."

"You come from Las Animas? When were you there? What business did you have at my home?" Adán demanded.

"I looked in on the poor woman and found her sick with grief and fear, her children secluded in their beds. I asked for Martinillo and she said he was hunting El Yoco. Her trouble was that same El Yoco. He was at Las Animas last night and Martinillo wasn't there. The animal went in close enough to kill the buckskin mare and to fight the bull. The neck of the mare was broken and she was lying dead not more than ten paces from this man's back door."

"And the bull?" Adán asked.

"Isn't he going to ask about his wife and children?" Celestino asked Juan Vogel.

"You told us about Lucrecia and the boys," Juan Vogel said.

Adán forced himself to relax and be patient. He tried the blade of Juan Vogel's knife at shaving the hair on the back of his hand. He would not ask Celestino another question. Celestino was going to savor giving each bit of information in his own time and manner. He would only tease if Adán questioned him.

"Well, the bull is surely good enough for jerky now after this last encounter with the animal, whatever it is. When I left Las Animas the poor woman was carrying water to him. He couldn't go to water by himself."

"You are sure Lucrecia didn't need your help?" Juan Vogel asked.

"Of course she did. I wanted to stay but I thought it better to try and find this man if he was still in the region. I thought to find him nearer his home, close on the track of the animal. Undoubtedly the same animal he is following killed the mare. I never thought to find him sitting by a fire in a camp. I only came here to warn these vaqueros to notify the man his woman needed him if they saw him. He is needed if for nothing else than to butcher the mare and the bull so the poor woman and those children can salvage the meat. She and those little creatures of hers can subsist alone for quite awhile on that meat when this man leaves them again.

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