It was after 3 in the morning when one of the common blackouts occurred, but on that occasion it had been general, there was something very strange about that blackout, because even the lights of the cars went out, and the distant boats that had to coming from the side of Veracruz, in the direction of the Román mansion, amid the thunderous silence the furious galloping of the horses could be heard, but when they began to realize what was approaching, the voices and shouts, coughs of disappointment at the blackout of the groups of boys who were outside were also extinguished.
And the boardwalk was completely silent, when the old carriage stopped just in front of the mansion, among the rumored of those outside who no longer sang or danced.
Adelina stared at the carriage in amazement without flinching.
The stagecoach-type carriage was driven by a couple of blacks slaves, who only looked straight ahead, tightly holding the reins of the spirited steeds, which snaked and whinnied impatiently, the boys inside the house, had not noticed. They are drinking and chatted among themselves, waiting for the light to return to continue dancing, while they finished their drink or beer, until in the middle of the rumored from outside, between the shouts of women and complaints from the drivers who could not start their cars, someone yelled, from the terrace.
- IT'S THE COUNTESS OF MALIBRÀN, IT'S HERE!
First of all, those who were downstairs laughed thinking that it was a joke, but the Queco who was one of those intelligent dogs, who could live with people without getting angry or nervous, having fun just as much because if they gave him drinks he accepted them, suddenly he began to bark and growl in despair, warning others of something; Pamela was the first to come to see what was wrong, getting off the stage and screaming.
- A CROCODILE!
And taking him by the leash, he dragged him towards the house, while the ferocious dog resisted trying to confront the lizard, and that was when the real chaos began at the party, because both inside the mansion and in the streets of the boardwalk.
Those who did not They were able to leave burning tires on their cars, because they did not start, they had to run away, the police did not know what to do, and only helped those who could escape by firing their weapons, taking advantage of them to escape terrified too, because the bowlevard began to be infested with crocodiles, that seemed to come out from everywhere, and they seemed not to receive damage from their bullets, since they absorbed the impact without bleeding, some got into their police vans to shoot them, inside the girls and the guests were put into the dining room, and the living room of the mansion, to put them safe from the crocodiles, that also seemed to come out of all the corners in the garden, and even without knowing what was happening, the bravest and unfear less managed to save everyone, even the Queco who managed to get inside the house and secured the doors, but the cry of that the carriage of the countess of Malibrán had parked in front of the house, was already being assimilated, and everyone got on the great main terrace; Adelina who had remained on the terrace looking straight ahead and standing at the carriage when Erika; Romaia; Pamela and the Queco arrived, drunk and everything was also scared when they saw the luxurious stagecoach, which seemed to be waiting for something or someone parked in the middle of the boulevard, with the blacks slaves drivers looking ahead and the phantasmagoric horses, outside only the crowded streets remained full of parked cars, and a half dozen policemen who had not bravely abandoned their units.
But kept climbing and locked in the patrol cars, so as not to be within reach of the dozens of crocodiles that surrounded them, but no longer shooting when they saw that their weapons were useless.
The carriage door opened, leaving Adelina, the 3 drunketeers, Mr. Hermelindo and all those who had gone up to the terrace waiting, a couple of policemen jumped from one patrol to another to be able to approach the carriage, but they stayed petrified to see a beautiful and elegant woman descend, making her way among the crocodiles.
- She is the countess of Malibrán!
Said one of them, while the others watched terrified from the immobilized patrols, the elegant woman who got out of the carriage, wearing long white gloves, a white hat, and a long Victorian-style lace dress, also white, which made her stand out very well. gold jewelry, with an elegant and distinguished walk.
With the naturalness of a royal lady, she approached the sidewalk and looked towards the house, in a calm way looking for something or someone among the people who were on the terrace, while in the distance shouts and shots were heard, such as instead of the police who tried to return to the scene and that was when Adelina said, breaking the silence, addressing the beautiful and elegant woman, who was looking at them from the boardwalk, at the foot of the sidewalk.
- GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, WOMAN, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO HERE!
Adelina yells defiantly, taking the 3 drunketeers by the hands, that even the drunkenness had gotten off them, while they hugged her frightened.
The countess of Malibrán took off her elegant hat, which was received by one of the drivers of the carriage, together with the gloves, to loosen her elegant hairstyle and dropping a long dark hair, she told Adelina, looking at her with her dark eyes that they occupied the entire basin.
-I want him to forgive me!
-Who do you want to forgive you, your husband?
Adelina asks him, trying to help the Countess, so that she leaves.
-JUSTICE, JUSTICEEE, LET THE MALIBRÀN COUNTESS DIE!
and suddenly, another scream was heard coming from the side of the boardwalk that belonged to Boca del Rio, while the silhouette of a sinister horseman, who with his drawn sword was attacking furious swords at the crocodiles that tried to avoid his advance, she was approaching, when.
-Sorry, Sorry, sorryYY!
The grim horseman passed swiftly in front of the mansion in pursuit of the departing carriage, until suddenly everything was over, the light returned and the crocodiles disappeared, leaving no trace of their presence, the lights of the City come back, the cars started up, and the policemen who bravely stayed to protect the schoolgirls of the mansion, asked Adelina to let them pass to check the house.
And when they found no trace of the beasts, and corroborated that none of the girls or guests was injured, they left, while some of the boys who had been chatting on the boardwalk, slowly dared to return by their cars to flee in terror, wanting to forget everything that had happened that morning, in that macabre party.
- Now listen you idiots! You see what happens to play with the legends? All those who live here to their rooms and those who do not to their houses with their parents! And start praying as I find a way that the Countess does not return for any of you, and you Pamelita, you go into the room with the Romaia and the Érika, to see if now if the desire for the Bacacho and of the dance, and no one leaves her room at least until tomorrow, when me can take them all to mass.
Adelina says, while her employees and her friends helped to evacuate the guests, and to reassure all the inmates of that pension for young ladies.