One Hundred Years of Solitude

stiffened into a military salute
before identifying herself:

I am Colonel Gregorio
Stevenson.

            He  brought bad news.   The

last centers of Liberal
resistance, according to what
he said, were being wiped
out. Colonel Aureliano
Buendía, whom he had left
fighting in retreat near
Riohacha, had given him a
message for Arcadio. He