Mauricio faithful friend, who had been suffering serious threats from Santiago, when he was trying to discover the whereabouts of Walquíria. The humiliated Colonel was again placed in front of the woman who for a long time treated her like a sex slave. So that before his former subordinates he would hear the death sentence she had in store for him. Beside the avenger was her husband and all the other men who served her on the five farms that she owned in Marajo as cowboys or foremen. Also, those who, after the invasion that resulted in the arrest of Santiago and the death of their thugs, decided to stay there.

Only silence could be heard in that moment of profound suspense, she headed towards the place where she once saw Eduardo's body, totally devoured by the rodents that infested the old basement of the house, where the colonists' working tools were once kept. Gallons of flammable products, such as diesel oil and gasoline, were there in large quantities.

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