Excerpt from For the Love of Tonita: Other Tales of the Mesas She crossed the stream, and her younger sister went her way and entered the house in the wall of the fort. The hut Tonita approached was scarcely large enough to show its flat, earthen roof above the dwarfed willows that lined the stream. The girl stepped quickly along the path and entered. The room was almost dark. Where is Ines she asked, still not knowing, in the gloom, whether or not there were any one to hear her question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.