But unlike much of the town, the church had a stone roof, so it had been undamaged by fire. The oldest part of the church dated from the fourteenth century, and had been built without wide and smashable windows, so its exterior had been largely spared by the war. Everything breakable or burnable ...
Rivas, accompanied by Guardias Flores and Girón, ignored the portal of the venerable club, as solidly closed to them as the thick-walled gardens in the neighborhood of the Casa Ordoñez. The three guardias were met at the gates by Guardia Medina, whom the sergeant had sent to search the house an h...
snapped Captain Rodríguez. “I released them this morning, sir.” The lieutenant was “ impassive. “We had no further cause to hold them.” “You don’t call murder ‘further cause’?” The captain spoke with what was intended as blistering sarcasm. “We have no evidence that any of them are involved in...