Part 3, Chapter 30 Summary

Carlos is deeply affected by Marian's death. He begins drinking and roaming around the West Coast aimlessly. He meets two girls on a bus, Lily and Rosaline, and gets off in Medford where they live. They had run off to San Diego to marry sailors. Carlos stays at a hotel but joins their family for dinner and goes swimming with them and their friends. The next morning he is on a bus headed for Seattle.

When he arrives in Seattle he meets Conrado Torres and learns what is happening. The contractors have hired armed thugs. The local cannery union head, Dagohoy, and two other Filipinos enter the restaurant as Conrado and Carlos are leaving. They hear shooting in the restaurant and find that the three union officials had been shot and killed.

Carlos goes to San Francisco after the funeral for...