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THREE days later, in the evening, the boys with their Indian escort reached the hacienda. Their approach had been unnoticed, for the mine labourers were all in their huts and the servants in their quarters at the back of the house. A light shone in the Señora Alvarez's room at the front giving on the veranda. The sound of their arrival brought the lady to the door.
"Oh, thank god!" she cried, rushing to meet them. "I have been in terrible distress. You are safe, unhurt?" She drew the boys into the rays of light.