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Chapter 3
Chapter three opens with the statement that after three years in prison, the Vicario twins were acquitted of their crimes due to the murder being a "legitimate defense of honor."
The narrator explains that the twins were actually not bloodthirsty. Indeed, they told more than a dozen people about their plan to kill Santiago - potentially with the hope that one of them would prevent what the brothers felt was their duty to defend their sister. Most people take their comments as "drunkards' baloney" since their reputations as good people are so well-founded.
At Clotilde's shop, they openly discuss their plan with Clotilde and a...
