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There were the two beehives Onofre Martinez had built and which the one-armed man cared for, supplying the Blooms with honey as a kind of rent.

She never threw stones at Tranquilino Jeantete or at Amarante Cordova or at Onofre Martinez or at Panky Mondragon or at Seferino Pacheco.

For example, two great-grandchildren, Chemo and Chepa Martinez, aged seven and nine, always rode with Onofre in his truck when he collected honey from the twenty hives he had, scattered around the Milagro area.

For example, there were even the present-day accounts of how a man named Onofre Martinez lost his arm, and of how a tiny woman called Ruby Archuleta killed a deer with her bare hands.

And finally Ruby Archuleta and Onofre Martinez ushered him to a seat in the first pew, where he sat hunched over with tears in his eyes, intermittently rumbling for the duration of the meeting.

He defeated the previous incumbent, Eloy Martinez, who himself, by promising to straighten out the phone situation, had defeated the then-incumbent Orlando Mondragon, who had likewise, several years before that, ridden to victory on a platform of No MORE PARTY LINES!

Onofre Martinez, a one-armed ex-sheepman who was known as the Staurolite Baron and also as the father of Bruno Martinez, a state cop.

But Onofre Martinez was not about to cough up four bits for the privilege of being ticketed in front of the Pilar Cafe, especially since his own son Bruno had developed into such a rotten apple by joining the state police.

Bitterly he began to write, thinking as he did so that if ever all the cantankerous streaks in people h'ke Amarante Cordova, Joe Mondragon, and Onofre Martinez were united behind a common cause, there would be much more than all hell to pay.

Lydia Martinez called too, and she said when she was mopping up -over at Pedro Hirsshorn's Land of Enchantment whorehouse for tourists she heard Pedro "the Pedo" himself talking with Zopi Devine on the telephone, and she said afterward the Pedo told Nick Rael that the Zopilote was gonna fly down to the capital and talk with the governor about your beanfield.

To be sure many of these dreams, especially of late, depicted one-armed Onofre Martinez tearing up Bernabe's fucking parking tickets hi front of Mila-gro's lone parking meter.

After her, the Staurolite Baron with the infamous missing arm, Onofre Martinez, appeared, gestured obscenely at his son Bruno Martinez, the state cop (who was parked nearby keeping an eye on things), and entered the church.

Onofre Martinez stammered excitedly, emotionally placing his only hand on Ray Gusdorf s shoulder.

He called it Chateau Martinez: at least, that's what the fancy wooden sign (sculptured years ago by the presently absent santo carver Snuffy Ledoux) over the front gate said.

Occasionally, Pacheco came over to the Chateau Martinez, not under the pretext of looking for his sow (because how could his sow transcend that airtight picket fence neatly surrounding Onofre's property?