The Witchery of Rita

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Excerpt from The Witchery of Rita: And Waiting for Tonti If these stories have a purpose other than the one which should take first rank in fiction - that of entertaining the reader - it is that they may bring back from the shadowy yesterdays a suggestion of a life and people long since gone from our golden Southwest. The cliff-dwellers of Montezuma's Castle might easily have been the ancesters of Tonti, and all that happened to Rita are well within the picture of old San Xavier. As for our goat Nicolas, he needs neither champion nor sponsor. His ancestors lived on terms of equality with Spanish dons and his posterity today bows the head to things human, only for purposes not in the least connected with humility. If Nicolas got royally drunk on Spanish wine he showed no greater frailty than many of his human contemporaries who knew better and doubtless acted worse. 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.