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Sands tilted his head. "No. Barrillo did."

But Sands had lied. The silver revolver was not in the piano. It was in Sands's hand, pointed at the Mariachi's back.

From the kitchen doorway, a shadow emerged. A woman with a jagged scar across her cheek and a .44 Magnum in each hand. It was Ajedrez, the former federal agent Carolina had saved before she died. She had been following the Mariachi for months. Erase una Vez en Mexico

Years later, in a cantina in Chihuahua, a new legend was born. Travelers spoke of a blind man who played a seven-string guitar (he had replaced the broken one with a string made of piano wire—the same wire he once used to garrote a cartel lieutenant). They said he never spoke, never smiled, and never missed a shot.

Because in Mexico, there is no such thing as an ending. Only another verse in a never-ending ballad. Sands tilted his head

The hacienda was a fortress of white stucco and bougainvillea. General Barrillo sat at the head of a table long enough to land a plane on. To his right was Marquez, a man whose neck was thicker than a bull's and whose eyes had the warmth of a shark.

The Mariachi turned slowly. "You killed Carolina." The silver revolver was not in the piano

He played that night for free. The cantina fell silent. Even the flies stopped buzzing. And when the last note faded, the Mariachi stood up, slung his weapon—his guitar—over his shoulder, and walked into the darkness.