Page 11 - Fiction Rough draft--The Great Elopement_La Gran Fuga, setting rural PR, early 1940’s_Float

From the back window, Delmita said. Delmita, with a beautiful dress, one of those

“AVanza, hurry Cheito!!!​!”. Cheito had with lots of encajes ​/lace, and an ivory

been so distracted listening to the front brooch decorating the front neckline.

voices that he forgot to call Delmita. But

she saw him.

“I can’t climb back up! “He said. It’s easy

coming down, he thought, but would be

very hard to get back in. Delmita whispered

in earnest—”tirame las cosas arriba!” Throw
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the clothes up to me!
And he knew he had to do this right. One

chance. Up to the window. He thought of

when he played ball with his brothers. They

used to say he was a ​malango (not good ).

But he would show them. I can do this.

Carefully wrapping all items like a ball,With

all the strength he could muster, he threw

the precious dress up and the brooch.

Delmita caught it at once. She wasn’t

kidding around, thought Cheito.

. Her father ran to her. Delmita, “oh Delmita.

My beautiful daughter. . You have always

been stubborn Delmita. Porque me has

hecho esto?”

Then he looked angrily at Cundo. “Cundo,

What happened next, he wasn’t sure. Life ud se llevo a mi hija. “

seemed to move fast and at the time in very

Delmita said, ​“Papa , yo lo amo. Yo me

slow motion. He could hear himself breathe. quise ir.​”

It was that moment when you know things

It got a little tense for a moment. Cheito

could go very well or very, very badly. He could see don Manuel furrow his brow and

knew Delmita was changing up there in his

give Delmita a look that seemed both angry

room, and he kept hiding behind the house, and hurt. “ NO me averguenzes hija! You

every so often to peek into the front of the

know we had better plans for you.! Que haz

house and the balcony, and seeing Don hecho?”

Manuel, his uncles and grandmother, and a

few neighbors. It sounded like the father Then Cheito saw a side of don Manuel he

was very angry at first,and Petrona did cry a

had never seen. For some reason, the

little loud a couple times, but suddenly the grumpy man seemed to tear up and look at

voices became quieter. He heard the front

his daughter intently, at first angrily and

door open and quickly looked to see