บท 54: Chapter 53

Two days later, Jack and Mike took Taro, still convalescing from his injuries, to Trencavel's house. The Frenchman had lent the wounded man a bedroom that his son had vacated when he moved to Carcassonne, so that he could spend three or four days there until his recovery. The bodies of the two hitmen killed in the fight with Matsuko had been conveniently buried by Mike and Jack in the grove around Pog Mountain, and Bernal's had fallen into an impenetrable area where it would never be found before the vermin of the forest consumed it.

For all this, the doctors at the health post who had cured Taro accepted without many questions the version that the Japanese had injured himself when he fell from a certain height on a sharp rock.