Chivalry part 1
South America
Introduction
From the very earliest years following the conquest of Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century there have been Spanish- American writers, and though...
What Vasile Saw part 10
But what was it that the Son of God was bearing on his shoulders— something dark and heavy and enormously large.
His Cross! Christ too...
What Vasile Saw part 9
Why war? why suffering and cold and sacrifices when life might be easy—why? why? Why a God in the Heavens… too far off? Why...
What Vasile Saw part 8
Others rose to examine the longed-for wood Vasile had brought and exclamations of all kinds arose.
The prisoners raised their heads and stared with sullen...
What Vasile Saw part 7
With a rapid movement Vasile seized the first cross and tried to pull it from the frozen ground. … The cross resisted—resisted like a...
What Vasile Saw part 6
Vasile crossed himself instinctively, murmuring under his breath a prayer for the dead. He stood gazing in a dazed way at those three melancholy...
What Vasile Saw part 5
“Wood—wood! I was to find wood,” he grumbled. “Where in this damned desert is there any wood I wonder! My God, what a night!
The...
What Vasile Saw part 4
Vasile shrugged his shoulders. “As you will,” he said, slinging his gun upon his back and without further protest set out, wading with stiff...
What Vasile Saw part 3
A gust of wind whirled up a great wave of snow and each man turned so as to meet the onslaught with his back.
“A...
What Vasile Saw part 2
Their burly guardians paid little attention to them; in short sentences which the wind seemed to rend, they were talking to their only young...
