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Excerpt from For the Soul of Rafael: With Many Illustrations From Photographs Taken Expressly for This Book
A man stood back Of the cactus watching with tire less eyes the dividing Of the herds and the quick work Of the vaqueros as their excited mustangs raced for a stray or a rebel from the ranks. A dark serape was at his feet, the dust Of the roads on his face, and when he removed his sombrero to light a cigarro in its shelter, there was disclosed a great Shock Of black hair worn unusually long, and matching in unkemptness the full beard covering his face almost to his black velvety eyes.
They were the one youthful feature in an otherwise weather-worn visage, and at the sound of horse hoofs on the road, they opened wider, listening, alert, yet he did not turn to look whence the sounds came. Instead, he dropped silently to the serape, crushed the end Of the cigarro against a cactus leaf, and waited, as still and as safe from detection as a lizard of the mesa in a sage thicket.
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