The chapter opens with a description of a "law-Enforcer" from the "other side" who roams the human world trying to establish order and maintain law and order. The narrator explains that the path for the dead and the living are separated, and that the "paths for the living" are separated from the dead. The "path for the life and the dead" is separated from each other, and the path to heaven and hell is separated. The law "is one of the laws of the other side" , the narrator explains, and she enforces the law in order to maintain order and order in the world. The chapter ends with a soliloquy by the narrator in which he explains that he is leaving his job as an emissary to take a job as a law enforcement officer.