| - A town is a matter similar a colonial animal. A town has a nervous organization
and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all
other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. And a town has a
whole emotion. How news travels through a boondocks is a mystery not easily
to be solved. News seems to move faster than pocket-sized boys can scramble
and dart to tell it, faster than women can telephone call it over the fences. -
Before Kino and Juana and the other fishers had come to Kino'southward brush
house, the nerves of the town were pulsing and vibrating with the news-
Kino had found the Pearl of the World. Before panting little boys could
strangle out the words, their mothers knew information technology. The news swept on past
the castor houses, and it washed in a foaming moving ridge into the boondocks of
stone and plaster. It came to the priest walking in his garden, and it
put a thoughtful look in his eyes and a memory of certain repairs
necessary to the church. He wondered what the pearl would be worth. And
he wondered whether he had baptized Kino's baby, or married him for
that matter. The news came to the shopkeepers, and they looked at men'southward
clothes that had not sold so well. -
The news came to the physician where he sat with a woman whose affliction was
age, though neither she nor the doctor would admit it. And when it was
made manifestly who Kino was, the medico grew stern and judicious at the
aforementioned time. "He is a client of mine," the doctor said. "I am treating
his child for a scorpion sting." And the doctor's optics rolled upwardly a
little in their fat hammocks and he idea of Paris. He remembered the
room he had lived in there as a great and luxurious identify, and he
remembered the hard-faced woman who had lived with him as a beautiful
and kind girl, although she had been none of these iii. The doc
looked past his aged patient and saw himself sitting in a restaurant in
Paris and a waiter was just opening a canteen of vino. -
The news came early on to the beggars in front of the church, and it fabricated
them giggle a fiddling with pleasure, for they knew that there is no
almsgiver in the world similar a poor human who is all of a sudden lucky.
Kino has found the Pearl of the Globe. In the town, in little offices,
sat the men who bought pearls from the fishers. They waited in their
chairs until the pearls came in, and and then they cackled and fought and
shouted and threatened until they reached the everyman toll the
fisherman would stand. But there was a price below which they dared not
go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his
pearls to the church building. And when the buying was over, these buyers sabbatum
solitary and their fingers played restlessly with the pearls, and they
wished they endemic the pearls. For there were not many buyers really-
there was only one, and he kept these agents in split offices to
requite a semblance of competition. The news came to these men, and their
eyes squinted and their fingertips burned a little, and each one
thought how the patron could not live forever and someone had to take
his place. And each one thought how with some uppercase he could go a
new commencement. -
All fashion of people grew interested in Kino- people with things to
sell and people with favors to ask. Kino had found the Pearl of the
Earth. The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious
dark residue was precipitated. Every homo suddenly became related to
Kino's pearl, and Kino'due south pearl went into the dreams, the speculations,
the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts,
the hungers, of everyone, and but ane person stood in the fashion and that
was Kino, and then that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news
stirred upwardly something infinitely blackness and evil in the boondocks; the black
distillate was similar the scorpion, or like hunger in the olfactory property of nutrient,
or like loneliness when honey is withheld. The toxicant sacs of the town
began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the
pressure of information technology. -
Only Kino and Juana did not know these things. Because they were happy
and excited they thought everyone shared their joy. Juan Tomas and
Apolonia did, and they were the world too. In the afternoon, when the
sun had gone over the mountains of the Peninsula to sink in the outward
sea, Kino squatted in his house with Juana beside him. And the brush
firm was crowded with neighbors. Kino held the neat pearl in his
mitt, and it was warm and alive in his hand. And the music of the pearl
had merged with the music of the family so that one beautified the
other. The neighbors looked at the pearl in Kino's mitt and they
wondered how such luck could come up to any man. -
And Juan Tomas, who squatted on Kino'south right mitt because he was his
brother, asked, "What will yous do now that you accept become a rich man?"
Kino looked into his pearl, and Juana cast her eyelashes down and
bundled her shawl to encompass her face up so that her excitement could not
be seen. And in the incandescence of the pearl the pictures formed of
the things Kino's listen had considered in the past and had given up as
impossible. In the pearl he saw Juana and Coyotito and himself continuing
and kneeling at the high altar, and they were being married now that
they could pay. He spoke softly, "We will be married- in the church."
In the pearl he saw how they were dressed- Juana in a shawl potent with
newness and a new skirt, and from under the long skirt Kino could run into
that she wore shoes. Information technology was in the pearl- the picture glowing there. He
himself was dressed in new white dress, and he carried a new hat- non
of straw but of fine black felt- and he too wore shoes- not sandals simply
shoes that laced. But Coyotito- he was the one- he wore a blue sailor
suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had
seen once when a pleasance boat put into the estuary. All of these
things Kino saw in the lucent pearl and he said, "We will have new
dress." -
And the music of the pearl rose like a chorus of trumpets in his ears.
And so to the lovely gray surface of the pearl came the piffling things
Kino wanted: a harpoon to take the identify of one lost a yr ago, a new
harpoon of iron with a ring in the end of the shaft; and- his mind
could hardly make the leap- a rifle- but why non, since he was so rich.
And Kino saw Kino in the pearl, Kino property a Winchester carbine. It
was the wildest heedless and very pleasant. His lips moved
hesitantly over this- "A rifle," he said. "Perhaps a rifle." -
Information technology was the burglarize that bankrupt down the barriers. This was an
impossibility, and if he could think of having a rifle whole horizons
were outburst and he could blitz on. For it is said that humans are never
satisfied, that you give them one matter and they want something more.
And this is said in disparagement, whereas information technology is 1 of the greatest
talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals - that are satisfied with what they take.
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The neighbors, close pressed and silent in the business firm, nodded their
heads at his wild imaginings. And a man in the rear murmured, "A burglarize.
He will accept a rifle." -
Merely the music of the pearl was shrilling with triumph in Kino. Juana
looked up, and her eyes were wide at Kino'due south courage and at his
imagination. And electric strength had come to him now the horizons
were kicked out. In the pearl he saw Coyotito sitting at a little desk
in a school, just every bit Kino had once seen it through an open door. And
Coyotito was dressed in a jacket, and he had on a white collar, and a
broad silken tie. Moreover, Coyotito was writing on a large piece of
newspaper. Kino looked at his neighbors fiercely. "My son will become to
school," he said, and the neighbors were hushed. Juana caught her
breath sharply. Her eyes were bright equally she watched him, and she looked
chop-chop down at Coyotito in her arms to see whether this might be
possible. -
Merely Kino's face shone with prophecy. "My son will read and open the
books, and my son volition write and will know writing. And my son will
make numbers, and these things will make us costless considering he will know-
he will know and through him we will know." And in the pearl Kino saw
himself and Juana squatting by the little fire in the castor hut while
Coyotito read from a slap-up volume. "This is what the pearl will do," said
Kino. And he had never said and so many words together in his life. And
of a sudden he was agape of his talking. His manus closed down over the
pearl and cutting the light away from information technology. Kino was afraid every bit a human being is
afraid who says, "I will," without knowing. -
At present the neighbors knew they had witnessed a great marvel. They knew
that time would now date from Kino's pearl, and that they would discuss
this moment for many years to come. If these things came to pass, they
would recount how Kino looked and what he said and how his eyes shone,
and they would say, "He was a man transfigured. Some power was given to
him, and there it started. You see what a slap-up human he has become,
starting from that moment. And I myself saw it." -
And if Kino'southward planning came to nothing, those same neighbors would say,
"There it started. A foolish madness came over him so that he spoke
foolish words. God go along us from such things. Yep, God punished Kino
because he rebelled against the way things are. You see what has become
of him. And I myself saw the moment when his reason left him." -
Kino looked downwardly at his closed hand and the knuckles were scabbed over
and tight where he had struck the gate. -
Now the dusk was coming. And Juana looped her shawl under the babe so
that he hung against her hip, and she went to the burn hole and dug a
coal from the ashes and broke a few twigs over it and fanned a flame
alive. The little flames danced on the faces of the neighbors. They
knew they should go to their own dinners, only they were reluctant to
go out. -
The night was almost in, and Juana'southward fire threw shadows on the brush
walls when the whisper came in, passed from oral fissure to mouth. "The Father
is coming- the priest is coming." The men uncovered their heads and
stepped dorsum from the door, and the women gathered their shawls virtually
their faces and cast down their optics. Kino and Juan Tomas, his brother,
stood upward. The priest came in- a graying, crumbling man with an old skin and
a young sharp eye. Children, he considered these people, and he treated
them like children. -
"Kino," he said softly, "thou art named after a great man- and a bully
Father of the Church." He fabricated it audio like a benediction. "Thy
namesake tamed the desert and sweetened the minds of thy people, didst
thou know that? It is in the books." -
Kino looked quickly downward at Coyotito's caput, where he hung on Juana's
hip. Some twenty-four hours, his heed said, that boy would know what things were in
the books and what things were not. The music had gone out of Kino's
head, but now, thinly, slowly, the melody of the morn, the music of
evil, of the enemy, sounded, simply it was faint and weak. And Kino looked
at his neighbors to see who might accept brought this song in. -
But the priest was speaking again. "It has come to me that thou hast
found a bang-up fortune, a great pearl." -
Kino opened his manus and held it out, and the priest gasped a little at
the size and beauty of the pearl. And then he said, "I promise thou wilt
remember to give thanks, my son, to Him who has given thee this
treasure, and to pray for guidance in the futurity." -
Kino nodded dumbly, and information technology was Juana who spoke softly. "We volition,
Father. And nosotros volition exist married at present. Kino has said so." She looked at
the neighbors for confirmation, and they nodded their heads solemnly.
The priest said, "It is pleasant to run across that your first thoughts are
good thoughts. God bless y'all, my children." He turned and left quietly,
and the people let him through. -
Simply Kino's hand had closed tightly on the pearl again, and he was
glancing about suspiciously, for the evil vocal was in his ears,
shrilling confronting the music of the pearl. -
The neighbors slipped away to go to their houses, and Juana squatted by
the fire and set her clay pot of boiled beans over the little flame. -
Kino stepped to the doorway and looked out. As always, he could smell
the smoke from many fires, and he could come across the hazy stars and feel the
damp of the nighttime air so that he covered his olfactory organ from it. The sparse domestic dog
came to him and threshed itself in greeting like a windblown flag, and
Kino looked downwardly at it and didn't see it. He had broken through the
horizons into a cold and solitary outside. He felt solitary and unprotected,
and scraping crickets and shrilling tree frogs and croaking toads
seemed to be carrying the melody of evil. Kino shivered a trivial and
drew his coating more tightly against his olfactory organ. He carried the pearl
yet in his hand, tightly closed in his palm, and it was warm and
smoothen confronting his skin. -
Behind him he heard Juana patting the cakes earlier she put them down on
the clay cooking sheet. Kino felt all the warmth and security of his
family behind him, and the Vocal of the Family came from behind him similar
the purring of a kitten. But now, by saying what his hereafter was going
to be like, he had created information technology. A plan is a real thing, and things
projected are experienced. A plan in one case made and visualized becomes a
reality forth with other realities- never to be destroyed but easily to
be attacked. Thus Kino'southward time to come was existent, merely having fix information technology up, other
forces were ready to destroy it, and this he knew, so that he had to
prepare to meet the attack. And this Kino knew also- that the gods practice
not dear men'due south plans, and the gods practice not beloved success unless it comes
by accident. He knew that the gods have their revenge on a human being if he exist
successful through his own efforts. Consequently Kino was afraid of
plans, but having made one, he could never destroy it. And to meet the
attack, Kino was already making a difficult skin for himself against the
world. His eyes and his mind probed for danger before it appeared.
- Continuing in the door, he saw two men approach; and one of them carried
a lantern which lighted the ground and the legs of the men. They turned
in through the opening of Kino's brush fence and came to his door. And
Kino saw that one was the dr. and the other the servant who had
opened the gate in the forenoon. The divide knuckles on Kino's correct hand
burned when he saw who they were. -
The doctor said, "I was not in when you came this morning. But now, at
the get-go chance, I accept come to see the baby." -
Kino stood in the door, filling it, and hatred raged and flamed in dorsum
of his eyes, and fear besides, for the hundreds of years of subjugation
were cut deep in him. -
"The infant is near well now," he said curtly. -
The medico smiled, but his optics in their trivial lymph-lined hammocks
did non smile. -
He said, "Sometimes, my friend, the scorpion sting has a curious
effect. There will be credible improvement, and then without warning-
pouf!" He pursed his lips and made a little explosion to show how quick
it could exist, and he shifted his small black doctor's purse about and then that
the lite of the lamp fell upon it, for he knew that Kino'south race dear
the tools of any craft and trust them. "Sometimes," the physician went on
in a liquid tone, "sometimes there volition be a withered leg or a blind
center or a crumpled dorsum. Oh, I know the sting of the scorpion, my
friend, and I can cure it." -
Kino felt the rage and hatred melting toward fright. He did non know, and
possibly this doctor did. And he could not take the adventure of putting
his certain ignorance against this man'south possible knowledge. He was
trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, equally he
had said, they could be sure that the things in the books were really
in the books. He could not have a take chances- non with the life or with the
straightness of Coyotito. He stood bated and let the doctor and his homo
enter the brush hut. -
Juana stood upwardly from the fire and backed away as he entered, and she
covered the baby's face up with the fringe of her shawl. And when the
doc went to her and held out his mitt, she clutched the baby tight
and looked at Kino where he stood with the burn shadows leaping on his
face. -
Kino nodded, and merely so did she allow the doctor take the babe.
"Hold the calorie-free," the doctor said, and when the servant held the
lantern high, the medico looked for a moment at the wound on the baby's
shoulder. He was thoughtful for a moment so he rolled back the
infant's eyelid and looked at the eyeball. He nodded his head while
Coyotito struggled against him. -
"It is as I thought," he said. "The poison has gone inward and it will
strike before long. Come up look!" He held the eyelid downward. "See- it is blueish." -
And Kino, looking anxiously, saw that indeed it was a little blue. And
he didn't know whether or not information technology was always a little blue. Only the trap
was set. He couldn't take the chance. -
The physician'southward eyes watered in their little hammocks. "I volition give him
something to try to turn the poison aside," he said. And he handed the
baby to Kino. -
And then from his pocketbook he took a lilliputian bottle of white pulverisation and a capsule
of gelatine. He filled the capsule with the pulverisation and closed information technology, and
then around the first sheathing he fitted a second capsule and airtight it.
And then he worked very deftly. He took the infant and pinched its lower lip
until it opened its mouth. His fat fingers placed the capsule far back
on the infant'due south tongue, back of the bespeak where he could spit information technology out, and
then from the floor he picked upward the petty pitcher of pulque and gave
Coyotito a drink, and it was done. He looked again at the baby's
eyeball and he pursed his lips and seemed to recall. -
At last he handed the baby dorsum to Juana, and he turned to Kino. "I
recall the poisonous substance volition assail within the 60 minutes," he said. "The medicine
may save the baby from hurt, but I will come back in an 60 minutes. Perhaps I
am in time to salve him." He took a deep breath and went out of the hut,
and his servant followed him with the lantern. -
At present Juana had the baby under her shawl, and she stared at it with
anxiety and fear. Kino came to her, and he lifted the shawl and stared
at the baby. He moved his manus to look under the eyelid, and only so
saw that the pearl was still in his hand. Then he went to a box by the
wall, and from it he brought a slice of rag. He wrapped the pearl in
the rag, then went to the corner of the brush firm and dug a little
hole with his fingers in the dirt floor, and he put the pearl in the
pigsty and covered it upward and concealed the place. And then he went to the
fire where Juana was squatting, watching the baby's face up. -
The doctor, back in his house, settled into his chair and looked at his
sentinel. His people brought him a little supper of chocolate and sweet
cakes and fruit, and he stared at the food discontentedly. -
In the houses of the neighbors the subject that would lead all
conversations for a long time to come was aired for the first fourth dimension to
see how it would go. The neighbors showed i another with their thumbs
how big the pearl was, and they fabricated little caressing gestures to bear witness
how lovely it was. From now on they would watch Kino and Juana very
closely to see whether riches turned their heads, as riches turn all
people'south heads. Anybody knew why the doctor had come up. He was non adept
at dissembling and he was very well understood. -
Out in the estuary a tight-woven schoolhouse of small fishes glittered and
bankrupt h2o to escape a school of great fishes that drove in to eat
them. And in the houses the people could hear the swish of the small
ones and the bouncing splash of the great ones as the slaughter went
on. The dampness arose out of the Gulf and was deposited on bushes and
cacti and on picayune trees in salty drops. And the night mice crept
near on the footing and the piffling night hawks hunted them silently.
The skinny blackness puppy with flame spots over his eyes came to Kino's
door and looked in. He nearly shook his hind quarters loose when Kino
glanced up at him, and he subsided when Kino looked away. The puppy did
not enter the house, but he watched with frantic interest while Kino
ate his beans from the niggling pottery dish and wiped it clean with a
corncake and ate the cake and washed the whole down with a beverage of
pulque. -
Kino was finished and was rolling a cigarette when Juana spoke sharply.
"Kino." He glanced at her then got up and went quickly to her for
he saw fright in her optics. He stood over her, looking down, merely the
light was very dim. He kicked a pile of twigs into the fire hole to
make a bonfire, and then he could see the face of Coyotito. -
The baby's confront was flushed and his throat was working and a little
thick drool of saliva issued from his lips. The spasm of the stomach
muscles began, and the infant was very sick. -
Kino knelt beside his wife. "Then the doctor knew," he said, just he said
it for himself as well as for his wife, for his mind was difficult and
suspicious and he was remembering the white powder. Juana rocked from
side to side and moaned out the lilliputian Vocal of the Family every bit though information technology
could ward off the danger, and the baby vomited and writhed in her
arms. Now doubtfulness was in Kino, and the music of evil throbbed in
his head and nearly collection out Juana's song. -
The md finished his chocolate and nibbled the little fallen pieces
of sweet cake. He brushed his fingers on a napkin, looked at his picket,
arose, and took up his little bag. -
The news of the baby's illness traveled quickly among the castor houses,
for sickness is 2nd but to hunger as the enemy of poor people. And
some said softly, "Luck, you see, brings bitter friends." And they
nodded and got up to go to Kino's house. The neighbors scuttled with
covered noses through the nighttime until they crowded into Kino's house
over again. They stood and gazed, and they made little comments on the
sadness that this should happen at a time of joy, and they said, "All
things are in God's easily." The former women squatted downwards beside Juana to
try to requite her aid if they could and condolement if they could not. -
Then the doc hurried in, followed by his man. He scattered the quondam
women like chickens. He took the baby and examined it and felt its
head. "The poison it has worked," he said. "I think I can defeat it. I
volition try my best." He asked for water, and in the loving cup of it he put
3 drops of ammonia, and he pried open the baby'south mouth and poured
it down. The baby spluttered and screeched under the handling, and
Juana watched him with haunted eyes. The doctor spoke a piffling equally he
worked. "It is lucky that I know most the toxicant of the scorpion,
otherwise-" and he shrugged to show what could take happened.
Just Kino was suspicious, and he could not take his optics from the
doc's open pocketbook, and from the canteen of white powder there. Gradually
the spasms subsided and the baby relaxed nether the doc's hands. And
then Coyotito sighed deeply and went to sleep, for he was very tired
with vomiting. -
The physician put the baby in Juana'southward artillery. "He will go well at present," he
said. "I have won the fight." And Juana looked at him with admiration.
The md was closing his bag now. He said, "When do you lot call up you can
pay this bill?" He said information technology fifty-fifty kindly. -
"When I accept sold my pearl I volition pay you," Kino said. -
"You lot have a pearl? A proficient pearl?" the doctor asked with involvement. -
And then the chorus of the neighbors broke in. "He has found the Pearl
of the Globe," they cried, and they joined forefinger with thumb to
show how great the pearl was. -
"Kino will be a rich human," they clamored. "It is a pearl such as 1
has never seen." -
The doctor looked surprised. "I had non heard of it. Do you keep this
pearl in a safe identify? Perhaps y'all would similar me to put it in my prophylactic?"
- Kino'southward eyes were hooded now, his cheeks were fatigued taut. "I have information technology
secure," he said. "Tomorrow I volition sell it and then I will pay you lot." -
The doctor shrugged, and his moisture optics never left Kino's eyes. He knew
the pearl would be cached in the house, and he thought Kino might look
toward the place where it was buried. "It would be a shame to have it
stolen before yous could sell information technology," the medico said, and he saw Kino'due south
optics flick involuntarily to the floor almost the side post of the castor
house. -
When the dr. had gone and all the neighbors had reluctantly returned
to their houses, Kino squatted beside the lilliputian glowing coals in the
fire hole and listened to the night audio, the soft sweep of the little
waves on the shore and the distant barking of dogs, the creeping of the
breeze through the brush house roof and the soft spoken communication of his
neighbors in their houses in the village. For these people exercise not sleep
soundly all night; they awaken at intervals and talk a little and and then
go to sleep again. And after a while Kino got up and went to the door
of his house. -
He smelled the breeze and he listened for any foreign sound of secrecy
or creeping, and his eyes searched the darkness, for the music of evil
was sounding in his caput and he was fierce and afraid. After he had
probed the night with his senses he went to the place by the side mail
where the pearl was buried, and he dug it up and brought it to his
sleeping mat, and under his sleeping mat he dug another picayune hole in
the dirt floor and buried his pearl and covered it upwards once more. -
And Juana, sitting past the fire hole, watched him with questioning eyes,
and when he had buried his pearl she asked, "Who do yous fear?" -
Kino searched for a true answer, and at concluding he said, "Everyone." And
he could feel a shell of hardness drawing over him. -
After a while they lay down together on the sleeping mat, and Juana did
not put the infant in his box tonight, just cradled him on her arms and
covered his face up with her caput shawl. And the last calorie-free went out of
the embers in the fire hole. -
Only Kino'south encephalon burned, even during his sleep, and he dreamed that
Coyotito could read, that one of his own people could tell him the
truth of things. And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as
large equally a house, with messages equally big as dogs, and the words galloped
and played on the book. And and so darkness spread over the folio, and
with the darkness came the music of evil again, and Kino stirred in his
sleep; and when he stirred, Juana's eyes opened in the darkness. And
then Kino awakened, with the evil music pulsing in him, and he lay in
the darkness with his ears alert. -
Then from the corner of the house came a audio then soft that it might
have been merely a thought, a little furtive motility, a impact of a
foot on earth, the almost inaudible purr of controlled breathing. Kino
held his breath to mind, and he knew that whatever dark matter was in
his firm was holding its breath too, to listen. For a time no sound at
all came from the corner of the brush house. So Kino might have
thought he had imagined the sound. Merely Juana's hand came creeping over
to him in warning, and then the sound came once again! the whisper of a foot
on dry globe and the scratch of fingers in the soil. -
And now a wild fright surged in Kino's chest, and on the fear came rage,
every bit it e'er did. Kino'due south hand crept into his breast where his knife
hung on a string, and and then he sprang similar an angry true cat, leaped striking
and spitting for the night thing he knew was in the corner of the firm.
He felt cloth, struck at it with his knife and missed, and struck once more
and felt his pocketknife go through fabric, and then his caput crashed with
lightning and exploded with pain. There was a soft scurry in the
doorway, and running steps for a moment, and so silence. -
Kino could experience warm blood running down from his brow, and he could
hear Juana calling to him. "Kino! Kino!" And at that place was terror in her
vocalisation. Then coldness came over him as quickly every bit the rage had, and he
said, "I am all right. The thing has gone." -
He groped his way back to the sleeping mat. Already Juana was working
at the fire. She uncovered an ember from the ashes and shredded picayune
pieces of cornhusk over it and blew a footling flame into the cornhusks
and so that a tiny low-cal danced through the hut. And so from a surreptitious
place Juana brought a little slice of consecrated candle and lighted it
at the flame and set it upright on a fireplace stone. She worked
quickly, crooning equally she moved nearly. She dipped the stop of her head
shawl in h2o and swabbed the blood from Kino's hobbling brow. "It
is nothing," Kino said, but his optics and his voice were hard and common cold
and a heart-searching hate was growing in him. -
At present the tension which had been growing in Juana boiled upward to the
surface and her lips were thin. "This thing is evil," she cried
harshly. "This pearl is like a sin! It will destroy u.s.," and her voice
rose shrilly. "Throw it away, Kino. Allow us break it between stones. Let
us bury information technology and forget the place. Let us throw information technology back into the sea. It
has brought evil. Kino, my hubby, it will destroy the states." And in the
firelight her lips and her eyes were alive with her fear. -
Simply Kino'southward face was fix, and his heed and his will were set. "This is
our ane take chances," he said. "Our son must go to school. He must suspension out
of the pot that holds us in." -
"It will destroy united states all," Juana cried. "Fifty-fifty our son." -
"Hush," said Kino. "Practise not speak any more than. In the morning nosotros will sell
the pearl, and then the evil will be gone, and simply the adept remain.
Now hush, my wife." His nighttime eyes scowled into the little fire, and for
the first time he knew that his knife was notwithstanding in his hands, and he
raised the bract and looked at it and saw a petty line of blood on the
steel. For a moment he seemed about to wipe the blade on his trousers
but then he plunged the knife into the earth and so cleansed it. -
The afar roosters began to crow and the air inverse and the dawn was
coming. The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and
whispered through the mangroves, and the piffling waves beat on the
rubbly beach with an increased tempo. Kino raised the sleeping mat and
dug upward his pearl and put information technology in front of him and stared at it. -
And the beauty of the pearl, winking and glimmering in the light of the
little candle, cozened his encephalon with its beauty. So lovely it was, and then
soft, and its ain music came from it- its music of promise and please,
its guarantee of the future, of condolement, of security. Its warm lucence
promised a poultice against illness and a wall against insult. It
closed a door on hunger. And equally he stared at it Kino's eyes softened
and his face relaxed. He could encounter the fiddling image of the consecrated
candle reflected in the soft surface of the pearl, and he heard once again
in his ears the lovely music of the undersea, the tone of the diffused
green calorie-free of the sea bottom. Juana, glancing secretly at him, saw him
grinning. And considering they were in some manner 1 thing and one purpose, she
smiled with him. -
And they began this day with hope. |
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