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"Look." Rene said and pointed to a bojio lost in the hills. The windows were closed, many palm leaves were missing from the roof. 

"A Negrita once lived there," he said. "My negrita. Every evening at this time I would come to see her on horseback. And she would come running up to the gate and we would sit on that stone over there..." and gestured with his hand "until all the stars were out in the sky. When all the stars were out in the sky, I went home. One day she didn't come. She was gone. With another man..." He stopped the horse. Mine also stopped beside his. "For a year I came back here every night. I waited. And I seemed to see her crossing the field, laughing. Every night I came back and thought about her and how she had been able to take my heart. The stars came out and she did not come..." He spurred the horse and disappeared around the bend.

Almost suddenly it was dark. Finding myself alone, I suddenly felt the pain of the wounds in my arms and feet. It was dark and I was alone in the hills. I had a shiver of cold.

My horse moved. I let him step forward. Suddenly a big shadow was beside me: "We have to go back, it's late." said Rene and I looked up: all the stars had gone out into the sky.