Mary Margaret and the Gemini -- The turncoat's trials -- Dartmouth days -- Sister of fortuna -- Uncle Redbeard -- Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz -- Reckonings -- Buenaventura -- Ensenada de Isabel -- Seasons of Mars and Venus and Mors -- The second twins -- The bastards -- Account to the courtesan -- Discoveries -- In Mexico City -- Turns of fortune -- Two weddings -- Gloria Little -- El Presidente -- Tales from the cove -- Los cuates blancos -- Other crocodiles, other sharks -- Bruno and Felicia -- Black horse -- Distances -- The Espinosa legacy -- 25 July 1886 -- The harrowing -- Creeds of fraternity -- The power his sister married -- Or even ever grow old -- Nooses -- Noticias de Patria Chica -- Pleasures of a late hour -- Under the Porfiriato -- Tampico -- His mother said -- A country all its own -- Roots -- Correspondence -- Trespassers -- Mister Wells -- In the getting -- Culmination -- Branchings -- Cries of liberty -- Catalina -- The matriarch -- The uncaged -- Sins of the fathers -- Remains of night -- Epilogue.