Glaxo by Hernan Ronsino

Author:Hernan Ronsino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Part IV

FOLCADA

December 1959

Someone’s fucking La Negra. I’d bet my last dollar on it. That’s how it is. I saw something at the carnival parade. I felt the sting. Doubt, they put the doubt in my mind. Ever since, La Negra has been playing dumb. I never said anything to her. I don’t want to show my hand. I want her to trap herself. I have her in my sights. Oh, yes. I have her in my sights. As soon as she puts her foot in it, I’ll break her neck. I saw something at the carnival parade. And that’s how I know it’s some brat. A kid. I saw them from afar. And they were even disguised, in costumes. In Jugurtha’s war there were men who wore disguises. That’s what it says in the book that Lieutenant Segovia gave me one night at the police academy. I was on the late watch. The Lieutenant showed up in his pyjamas. This is for you. And he left. He gave me this book about Jugurtha’s war. He left it with me because he knows that I like history. The great adventures. Stories about warriors. And so I set myself to devouring the book, which has about a thousand pages. Now I know it almost by heart. And in one scene, in the war, some of Jugurtha’s soldiers in disguise betray one of the generals from the enemy army. A trap. Something like that. Betrayal is the foundation of power. That’s how history advances. I see them and I think of the South Seas, says Jugurtha, astride his horse, as he watches how the enemy army—the Romans are the enemy—how they wait, and Jugurtha doesn’t know that this enemy army will end up killing him. You watch me, Jugurtha says to his enemies, and I think of the South Seas. That’s why you might betray me. Behind a disguise, always, brewing slowly, is a gentle betrayal. That’s why you can’t deny that for a while now La Negra Miranda has been different. Distant. She looks at me, and she doesn’t smile like before. In fact, when she sees me she bites her lip. And La Negra bites her lip when she’s nervous. She’s hiding something. In the Prado Español, I saw her with a guy. I couldn’t see what costume he had, the guy. But they planted the seed. They left me the doubt. And that’s what grows inside me every day. It eats me up. The doubt. Because she’s hiding something from me. What’s more, now people are talking about the whole Suárez business. I can’t remember how I heard about it. What I do know is that they haven’t named me. They tell how things are. It pisses me off how they make everyone out to be little angels. They’re not all little angels. There was a revolution. We stopped a revolution. And we did it how we had to do it. Sure, something went wrong, because afterwards they sent us all over the place.

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