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General Petronio San Roman Arrives with his family.

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Wedding activities end, guests of honor leave.

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Angela Vicario requests a suitcase of personal belongings.

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Pura Vicario goes to bed.

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The "public spree" post-wedding festivities break up.

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Angela is returned by Bayardo for not being a virgin, Angela claims Santiago took her virginity and is beaten.

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Santiago, the narrator, Luis (the narrator's brother), and Cristo Bedoya visit Maria Cervante's house.

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Pedro and Pablo Vicario are urgently summoned home by their mother, Angela tells them Santiago took her virginity.

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The twins go to the meat market to sharpen their knives.

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Santiago, the narrator, and Cristo Bedoya were drinking together.

Simultaneously, Colonel Lazaro Aponte wakes up, shaves, and is told the twin's plan to kill Santiago.

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Clotilde Armenta sends one last urgent message to Victoria Guzman about the twin's plan.

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The twins visit Clotilde at the store and, while normally only food is sold at this time, she sells them a bottle of cane liquor.

Shortly after, Colonel Aponte finds the twins there and takes their knives.

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Santiago arrives home and goes to sleep.

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A woman begging for milk passes by Victoria Guzman, who years after admitted that said woman also warned her of the twins plan, including their motives and the place they were waiting for Santiago.

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Santiago wakes up on the day he is going to be killed.

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Santiago leaves his house.

The twins, sleeping on a bench with their concealed knives, start to wake up with the "first bellow of the boat" (the Bishop's boat) but wake up completely when they see Santiago leaving his house. They instinctively grab their knives.

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Santiago decides to change clothes before joining Margot, the narrator's sister, for breakfast. Margot tries to convince him to go together because breakfast was already made but he persuades her to go on ahead. Cristo Bedoya says that this was a strange insistence on Margot's part, like she knew the plan and wanted to hide him in the narrator's house.

He left with Cristo Bedoya, headed toward the square and that was the last Margot saw of him.

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Santiago's closest friend, Indalecio Pardo, doesn't warn him of his fate.

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Yamil tells Cristo Bedoya that Santiago is in danger, Cristo doubles back to find Santiago

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Santiago enters Flora Miguel's house, she yells at him

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Cristo Bedoya enters Santiago's bedroom while Santiago is in Flora Miguel's house to bring his gun to him.

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Pedro Vicario tells Cristo that they are going to kill Santiago, Cristo wants to shoot the twins but doesn't know how to use a gun.

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Victoria Guzman tells Placida Linero that her son is in danger.

Colonel Aponte tells Cristo that he will intercept the twins, but ends up checking on a dominoes game and misses them.

Cristo heads for the narrator's house to find Santiago.

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Divina Flora says she saw Santiago return home and go upstairs.

Cristo gets caught up with the Arangos so is unable to stop the murder.

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Santiago is murdered, "carved up like a pig".

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The twins turn in their knives to the priest.

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The twins are in jail

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The priest performs an autopsy on Santiago's decaying, butchered body, despite the fact that everyone knows how he died.