- The narrator informs us that we're getting into the last weeks of Latour's life now. He feels like he's ready for the end to come—and for the title of this book to live up to its promise.
- He remembers all the way back to when he was a little boy visiting with his cousins on the Mediterranean Sea.
- Sometimes Magdalena (the woman he saved from an abusive husband) comes to visit him. Everyone else he once knew is dead.
- The only other person left is the Navajo man Eusabio, who visits one day.
- In their last conversation together, Latour asks all about Manuelito, the outlawed leader of the Navajo people. He wonders if the white people will ever stop pushing the Native Americans off their land, or if they'll just keep pushing until all of the Native Americans are gone.