Chapters Four - Five Summary

Chapter Four. Shortly after Alicia and Elena play in the woods Elena's blood comes, meaning that she is not pregnant. A week after the two old white ladies leave to get their supplies a Peruvian trader named Paco arrives in the village on his boat with his wife Carmella and their baby daughter. Angel buys a lot of sugarcane liquor from Paco, and the entire village has a party. Later, in the middle of the night after everyone is asleep, Alicia hears someone weeping by the river and finds Carmella there with her baby; Paco's boat is gone. Carmella tells Alicia that Paco has decided the baby is not his, and that he is going to drown it in the river when he returns. Alicia tells Carmella that she will take the baby and get the mothers...