Kino finds his canoe with a splintered hole in the bottom. He orders her to get Coyotito and all of the corn they have. Kino says that he struck to save his life, but Juana says that this does not matter. She finds the pearl for Kino, and tells him that they must go away before daylight. Juana soon sees Kino limping toward her with a stranger whose throat has been slit. While walking on the beach, men accost Kino in search of the pearl, which is knocked from his hand and lands on the pathway. Juana knows that when Kino said that he is a man, he meant that he was "half-insane and half-god" and knows as a woman that "the mountain would stand while the man broke himself that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it." He then turns away from her and walks up the beach.
Kino chases Juana, then strikes her in the face with his clenched fist and kicks her in the side. Kino begins to feel a great sense of rage as he hears her footsteps going toward the shore Juana is going to throw the pearl back into the ocean. Kino sees her near the hanging box where Coyotito lay, and then watches her go out the doorway.
Kino senses movement near him, but it is only Juana who arises silently from beside him.
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