One Hundred Years of Solitude

Segundo, whom Petra Cotes
had locked up in a closet,
thinking that the order of
extermination included all
who bore the colonels name.
She would not let him out
until the fourth day, when the
telegrams received from
different places along the
coast made it clear that the
fury of the invisible enemy
was directed only at the
brothers marked with the
crosses of ash. Amaranta