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used his eyes.
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Where does he come from, brother Pedro?" asked one.
Down out of the rocks."
Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country
beyond there--where men can see. From near Bogota--where there are
a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of
sight."
"Sight?" muttered Pedro. "Sight?"
"He comes," said the second blind man, "out of the rocks."
The cloth of their coats, Nunez saw was curious fashioned,
each with a different sort of stitching.
They startled him by a simultaneous movement towards him, each
with a hand outstretched. He stepped back from the advance of
these spread fingers.
"Come hither," said the third blind man, following his motion
and clutching him neatly.
And they held Nunez and felt him over, saying no word further
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