Henry's "An Afternoon Miracle"" illustrates a small town near "an international river bridge"" and so too is one located near the Old Hidalgo's County Jail where criminals would spend a long time paying for their felonies (An Afternoon Miracle "). Today, this jail no longer serves as such; it has now become a historical place in Hidalgo, Texas. It still conserves most of its looks from when it was in use more than a century ago, but how could anyone be able to relate an O. Henry's story to Old Hidalgo's County Jail, or even think there are similarities between them? Similar to what the sultry adobe hut mentioned in O. Henry's story where the rangers kept "a fairly faithful espionage"" (An Afternoon Miracle"). Old Hidalgo's County Jail is a cube-shaped building, with its still sturdy handmade brick walls; some parts being bumpy, sandy and rough to the touch and some other would be choppy looking but would feel softer to the touch, almost like stroking a pebble. All of these bricks have different pigmentation varying from sandy, pine and hazel tones, and their textures vary from their location and how they have been passing through some environmental changes. Some parts have big darker spots that go from side to side, easily covering a quarter of the outside walls on every side, located on different areas of the walls. Those bricks probably still keep some of their original hue and some other bricks are pale, as their color is slowly losing its intensity being faded by the scorching sunshine. Other bricks that are closer to the roof are stained, as if charcoal or ashes would have been rubbed against them, actually being caused by rainwater that filtered on their surface, giving a moldy and antique look on those bricks around the roof. The building's windows are covered by rusty, narrow-spaced, cold-metal bars. Some of the bars are crooked and others slightly broken, all of them giving out a smell of iron that can be detected immediately if approaching them, their paint is already worn-out by the passage of time, looking pale and having some kind of mint-like hue.
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