His wife, pregnant at the time, vainly begged from door to door for work or alms in order to care for her sick husband and their poor son, but who would trust the wife of an incendiary and a disgraced man?
The wife, then, had to become a prostitute!" Ibarra rose in his seat.
"Oh, don't get excited! Prostitution was not now a dishonor for her or a disgrace to her husband; for them honor and shame no longer existed.

The husband recovered from his wounds and came with his wife and child to hide himself in the mountains of this province.

Here they lived several months, miserable, alone, hated and shunned by all.

The wife gave birth to a sickly child, which fortunately died.

Unable to endure such misery and being less courageous than his wife, my grandfather, in despair at seeing his sick wife deprived of all care and assistance, hanged himself.