I have been informed that the reference to this incident is not in Lino Leitao's Gift of the Holy Cross but in Silviano Barbosa's Sixth Night. I knew I read in a novel but, as I said, I thought it was possibly in Lino's book. I must say that it was not because the young girl "spurned" a jawan's advances, as in the book, but her father's argument over a pack of cigarettes.
Eugene
