The weekend niece. from the book, Searching for treasures

Gabriel stopped laughing and began to answer in a subdued and severe tone:

  “My Dear Oscar, if you only knew the things that we’ve gone through lately. Having heard your explanations… I just couldn’t help but laugh at this most remarkable coincidence.” Apparently, he was in a most cheerful mood at the moment. As he noticed the question mark on Oscar’s face, he continued saying,

    “The fact of the matter, Oscar, is that your last remarks fit so perfectly with my reasons for this trip to Lima. So, without making a big thing about this not so simple matter, let me proceed to explain why I’m here. Don’t think that in our circus we have a lot of freak animals or the typical animal acts you’ll find in most circuses that travel the roads of this vast planet of ours. That’s the way it was, way back, when my grandfather and his brothers were in charge of the show. In those days, let me tell you that a circus was full of animals, it seemed like if the jungle was traveling with them, oh yes siree!! With this last explanation, he started to laugh one more time, for a brief, but an enjoyable moment.

    “We’ve done our best to change things in our show. At the moment, we have a radically different proposal which consists of a high-quality circus. We aim to offer a high level of performance in this showbiz world we move around in. Our pitch is oriented toward offering the ultimate perfection in the exhibition of fine horses and horsemanship, a world-class act, to speak. It goes without saying, that we want to offer a decidedly sophisticated act, for in the long run… the show must go on, and the public is expecting a proper entertainment.”

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