Characters
- El Gallo (the Narrator/Bandit)
- Matt (the Boy)
- Luisa (the Girl)
- Hucklebee (the Boy's father)
- Bellomy (the Girl's father)
- Henry (the Old Actor)
- Mortimer (the man who dies - an actor, pretending to be an American Indian)
- The Mute (who at times acts the part of the Wall)
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