In Conclusion, the family returns to the village, what is the Community’s reaction

In the conclusion, Kino and Juana arrive back in La Paz; he carries a gun while she carries her shawl with a limp, heavy bundle. Their return to La Paz becomes a notable event: "there may be some old ones who saw it, but those whose fathers and whose grandfathers told it to them remember it nevertheless."

It was late in the golden afternoon when the first little boys ran hysterically in the town and spread the word that Kino and Juana were coming back. And everyone hurried to see them. The sun was settling toward the western mountains and the shadows on the ground were long. And perhaps that was what left the deep impression on those who saw them.

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And those people who had rushed to see them crowded back and let them pass and did not speak to them.