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The troop made camp on a plain, near three small, solitary houses lined up in a row, their white walls contrasting against the purple ring of the horizon. Demetrio and Camila went toward them.
Inside the corral, a man wearing a simple white shirt and trousers was standing, avidly puffing at a cornhusk cigarette. Near him, sitting on a stone slab, another man was shelling corn, rubbing husks together between his two hands and frequently shaking one of his legs-which was withered and dried out and had something like a goat's hoof on its end- to shoo away the chickens.