The next day, Kino goes to sell the pearl, eagerly watched by his entire community. Unfortunately for Kino, the pearl buyers are all colluding with each other. No one offers him more than a third of the pearl’s real value. Furious, Kino decides to forget the pearl buyers and go straight to the capital. Now, Kino’s a bit of a homebody, so a trip up north is a big deal. Juana again tries to dissuade him, but Kino refuses to listen, so Juana is helpless. Or is she? Kino wakes up in the middle of the night to find his wife about two seconds away from chucking the pearl into the ocean. In keeping with his earlier aggressive outbreak, Kino resorts to his fists and beats his wife. As Kino makes his way back to the house, someone attacks him, and his house erupts in flames. Kino kills his attacker and he and Juana watch their hut burn to the ground.