When Yolanda had decided she could no longer live with Juan, she asked Jacinta for help.
It was not the beatings, or the drunken mounting of her body as if she were a brood mare or worse--nothing--for a mare was a valuable thing to a man. She had seen him sniffing around the neighbor's
young daughters but Juan accused her of jealousy and beat her near breathless with his fists and a stick.
It was when he had beaten their youngest so badly he did not survive that Yolanda made up her mind.
