Caray, Caray!

Santos asks Gonzalo where Marisela is. Gonzalo seems surprised to find that she's not at Altamira. He tells Santos that Marisela left them and he doesn't know where she is. DB pulls Gonzalo aside and demands to know why he didn't succeed in winning Marisela's love with all the opportunity he had. "Doña, you can insult me all you want to but Marisela never cared about me. It's impossible to do anything when confronted with indifference or when confronted with love." (Contra desamor o contra el amor no se puede hacer nada.)

Guerrero tells Antonio and María Nieves that they will be released shortly.

Gonzalo tells Santos that Marisela used him to get away from Altamira and especially from Santos and DB. He tells Santos that a few hours after they crossed the frontier, Marisela took a bus back to her country. She wouldn't tell him where she was going except that it wasn't to Altamira. [It wasn't too hard to guess where she went though and later we find out I was right.]
Gonzalo points out to the drink stupefied Santos that he seems to be the only one who is concerned about where Marisela is.

DB tells Eustaquia that she doesn't want Marisela to return to Altramira. Eustaquia says that if Marisela returns, DB won't be able to do anything about it. "Not if I find her before then," says DB. DB sends Melquíades to steal the letters from Marisela that are in Cecilia's house.

Santos comes to Cecilia's house, sees the packet of letters in her secretary and demands to know where Marisela is. Cecilia says that she has known where Marisela is from the beginning but she promised not to tell Santos. She tells him that Marisela doesn't need him.

Melesio tells Gonzalo that he thinks that DB has taken away Santos' will like she did with Lorenzo. He asks Gonzalo whether he thinks this the same Santos of a year ago.

Juan Primito comes to tell DB that Eustaquia is ill. She has a headache. Eustaquia says that she is tired of fighting with DB. She begs DB to leave Marisela alone. DB replies that she has to make sure that Marisela doesn't return. She doesn't want to hurt her. She is afraid of what Santos will do if she returns.

Melesio, his grandsons in law, Gonzalo & Pajarote are playing dominoes when Santos staggers in hopelessly drunk. He passes out and has to be taken back to Altamira. Gonzalo is shocked that Santos drinks so much. Carmelito and Pajarote says that Santos reminds them of Lorenzo when he was drinking.

Melquíades steals the letters from Cecilia's house and delivers them to DB.

DB hand feeds something for a hangover to Santos in bed. DB tells Santos that she has an appointment with the fertility doctor in the Capital. She and Santos make love. As she leaves, Santos asks why DB is in such a good mood. DB replies that she loves him, he loves her and they just made love. DB leaves and Santos says that it is very suspicious that DB is so happy.

Some guys snatch BP from La Chusmita.

Cecilia finds that her letters from Marisela are gone. She thinks it was Santos.

Gonzalo leaves Altamira to return to the Capital.

Cecilia accuses Santos of taking the letters from Marisela. He denies it an they realize that DB must have taken them. Santos tells Cecilia that DB just left for the Capital. Santos goes to look for the letters in DB's room.

Antonio is concerned that he hasn't heard from Cecilia recently. The guard tells him and MN that they have a visitor - a pretty woman.

While walking her nephew in his baby carriage, Altragracia meets Bartolome Mujica, the nephew of Mujiquita. He is very silly and I predict that he is going to be the poet that she thinks she wants until she realizes that she is really in love with MN.

BP is taken to see a man whom he recognizes. Presumably, it is the gringo whom he saw with Danger.

Looking for the letters from Marisela, Santos finds the soil analysis saying that there is oil at La Chusmita. "Barbara knew there is oil at La Chusmita and didn't tell me," he says.

We don't see who has come to visit Antonio and MN but they are surprised to see this person. [I'm guessing it's Marisela.]

DB shows up at Maurice's house [I knew it!] looking for Marisela. [Yippee! Mauricio is back.]

FYI- I am going out of town this afternoon and won't be back until late Sunday night so I will have to do catchup on recaps of DB next week.

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