Part Two, Artifices, The End Summary

A man is lying in the back of his store, injured and unable to walk. The man asks his son if there is any customers and is told there are not. Out the window the man can see a local black man who has hung around the store for several years, ever since losing a guitar duel with another man. As the store owner watches, a stranger comes to the store. The stranger has a drink and speaks to the black man about his children and the words he left them with. The stranger says that he warned his children to never kill another man so that they will not have to live their lives the way he has. The two men go outside then and the black man tells the other that he is...