Juan Lepe walked away alone.
Through the remainder of this day he had now company and adventure without, now solitude and adventure within.

That night he spent in a ruined tower where young trees grew and an owl was his comrade and he read the face of a glorious moon.Dawn.He bathed in a stream that ran by the mound of the tower and ate a piece of bread from his wallet and took the road.
The sun mounted above the trees.

A man upon a mule came up behind me and was passing.

"There is a stone wedged in his shoe," I said.

The rider drew rein and I lifted the creature's foreleg and took out the pebble.
The rider made search for a bit of money.