The next morning, the rebel leader, the angel woman, appears before the sleeping father and announces that she has recovered the eye that her father lost during the battle of San Antonio. The father tells the woman that he has been hiding with the angel gang for five months and that the cavalry is after his neck. He says that he wants to see his youngest son, alonzo, who has been suffering from a pussing wound in the neck caused by the bite of his brother. When the boy was found, he was delirious and had eaten three men. He died the next day.