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Miners and Bandits.
are a keen, light blue. He had a rolling straw hat, such
as we are accustomed to see on farmers in caricatures.
His shirt, light brown, with no tie, had evidently been his
one best friend for many years. A pair of old gray trousers,
for which neither belt nor suspenders were deemed
a necessity, and a pair of old boots completed an attire
that at no time could have weighed heavily upon his mind.
Last year he dug out from his mine in Sonora $85,000
in gold, and a short time ago purchased a ranch for which
he paid $55,000.
Two months before my conversation with him, Mr.
Hand had started out for his mine near Magdalena, a small
town in the State of Sonora, about eighty miles from the
border.
"He-was in here the morning he left," said Mr. Austin;
"and I told him he would be lucky if he came back
alive, because I knew that if a Mexican gets a chance to
shoot a man when he is at a disadvantage and there are
no witnesses around, he will do it."
"Well," drawled Hand, and the memory of his escape
seemed mildly to amuse him, "you was pretty near
right, but there I was and here I am. But I have made
up my mind to one thing-that all the gold in the world
isn't any good to a dead man, and there is a perfectly good
mine down in Sonora belonging to me that any one can
have that wants."
After Hand had been down there about a month he
was coming along the trail from his mine to Magdalena
with his two partners, Parks and Dickson. At a particularly
desolate point in the trail four bandits rode suddenly
from behind the mesquite bushes in front and told them
to hold up their hands.
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