After the Fiesta of the Holy Salvador Teresa stayed in the city. Just like that, really, not with a plan, and after a week she ran out of money.
    'I'd rather stay here,' she said. 'There is no work back home in Gotera, and it is so boring there because of the war.'

The harbormaster is a very large black man. He is so big that he barely fits behind his desk or inside his uniform. Every time he breathes, with a little sigh, the buttons threaten to pop off his shirt.
     'If I understand it all correctly,' he says, 'you have come from Florida because you are looking for a friend of yours, a certain Frank Blackwell?'