There were not lacking those who added that they had seen descending into the trench, when everything was tumbling down, a figure in a dark robe like that of the Franciscans.

There was no doubt about it; it was San Diego himself! It was also noted that Ibarra had attended mass and that the yellowish individual had not--it was all as clear as the sun! "You see! You didn't want to go to mass!" said a mother to her son.

"If I hadn't whipped you to make you go you would now be on your way to the town hall, like him, in a cart!" The yellowish individual, or rather his corpse, wrapped up in a mat, was in fact being carried to the town hall.

Ibarra hurried home to change his clothes.
"A bad beginning, huh!" commented old Tasio, as he moved away..