Chapter 23 Summary

Soon Salvador's happiness comes to an end. As he drives to the house in Watts where they are doing the distilling, he sees several men jump from behind the bushes with guns drawn. When they take him inside, the have Domingo handcuffed to a chair and his face is covered with blood. The big man that Salvador had previously met at the hotel comes toward him with a gloved hand wrapped in barbed wire. The next thing Salvador knows, he is in jail. Domingo is in the cell along with him and several others, but Domingo is in very bad shape. When Salvador is finally able to talk to him, he finds that Domingo got tired of staying in the house where the distilling was going on, and went out to play pool. There he befriended a man and bragged about the bootlegging...