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2 CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH
there is such a one-Rosita Cada-who makes her
home with them and lives in hopes that one day
Roderigo will do her justice, and take her to the priest.
All the venom of this unholy and perverted family
is centered upon Juanita.
They make her a slave, a drudge. She lives in an old
outhouse shack tumbling over with decay, her bed is
dried brush and leaves which she gathers from the
woods-her food is scraps for which she stands eagerly
waiting, when it is thrown out as refuse from the kitchen
door. In her weakened condition she cannot perform
the heavy tasks assigned her, and she is whipped
-brutally whipped. There is one who stands by and
watches, with trembling quivering sides, one whose
praises are unsung and who is untrusted and uncheered
by all save Juanita who gives every ounce of her
starved affection to this one, a huge dog, so big and
powerful as to possess almost the strength of a horse.
It is not only Alaska that breeds these giant wolf
dogs-they roam the mountains of old Mexico wherever
the wolfpack runs. But if Juanita bestows her fright-
ened love upon Wolf dog-it is returned a million fold.
True he is stolid and cowed when the (human?) brutes
lash and kick him for being Juanita's shadow. But were
not their minds blinded by depraved powers they
would pause. They would pause and look at that stoic
image-whose eyes would narrow and cut like the lash
of a whip. Wolf dog loved Juanita as only animals can
love.
He was a dog that would weigh close to two hundred
pounds; his chest was like that of a young bullock, and
his legs like the limbs of a stout oak tree. The mount-
ains abounded with game to his liking, and so he fed
and ran the hills-'till he was a veritable dynamo of
strength. A strength that was created by fresh mount-
ain air and red raw meat.
The stars which were so unkind to Juanita were also
dealing out destruction to two other lives. Manuel
Maretta and his Senorita.