One Hundred Years of Solitude

she did not think about
returning. José Arcadio
Buendía did not discover that
his wife was missing until
eight oclock at night, when he
left the material warming in a
bed of manure and went to
see what was wrong with
little Amaranta, who was
getting hoarse from crying. In
a few hours he gathered a
group of well-equipped men,
put Amaranta in the hands of
a woman who offered to