Spring in the Navajo Country
- While Father Vaillant is still away in Arizona, Bishop Latour pays a visit to a Native American friend named Eusabio, who has recently lost his only son.
- Eusabio is one of the wealthiest and most influential Navajos that Latour has ever met. When he arrives, Eusabio greets him with all kinds of courtesy at his nice house.
- While staying with Eusabio for three days, Bishop Latour does a lot of reflecting. He thinks back to his younger years in seminary school.
- He even remembers the first time he saw a pale, sickly nineteen-year-old Joseph Vaillant, the man who'd one day become Latour's closest friend and companion in New Mexico.
- While thinking, Latour realizes that he has always been more intelligent than Vaillant. But Vaillant has always had much more spirit in him for the Catholic religion. Vaillant has never gone through the long periods of doubt and hopelessness that Bishop Latour has.