Here is your approval from authorities of your school house donation for the children of San Diego.
Be careful during the ceremony of the laying of the cornerstone of the schoolhouse .
During the picnic, Ibarra received a telegram from the Spanish authorities notifying him the approval of his donation of a school house for the children of San Diego.
After Padre Damaso’s sermon, the mass was continued by Padre Salve. Elias quietly moved to Ibarra, who was kneeling and praying by Maria Clara’s side. He suspected that the yellowish man, who built the derrick, was a paid stooge of Ibarra’s enemies.
She became crazy because she lost her two boys, Basilio and Crispin, the joy of her wretched life.
Crispin!!!Don't leave me...
True to his suspicion, later in the day, when Ibarra, in the presence of a big crowd, went down into the trench to cement the cornerstone, the derrick collapsed. Elias, quick as a flash, pushed him aside, thereby saving his life.
The arrogant Padre Damaso, speaking in the presence of many guests, insulted the memory of Ibarra’s father. Ibarra jumped to his seat, knocked down the fat friar with his fist, and then seized a sharp knife. Then, Ibarra was arrested.
Crispin was tortured in the convent and died. Basilio, with his brother’s dying cries.