Capitan Tiago's death and Basilio's imprisonment reach the province fast, and Rizal notes with bitter honour that simple San Diegans regret the student more than the patron. Rumour in Tiani grows deportation, murder on the road, courts-martial, and January's Cavite shadow; Sister Penchang blames Basilio for doubting dirty holy water while others say friar revenge for Juli and her tulisan father fits the corporation's petty habits. When Sister Bali tells Juli the news, the girl swoons, then weeps in silence, knowing patrons are needed from baptism to burial and Basilio now has none after Tiago.
An inner voice names Padre Camorra, the curate who freed her grandfather yet demanded sacrifices Juli has avoided, pinching and joking while street whispers say Tales would be pardoned if she wished. Sister Bali treats the town clerk like the Delphic oracle and learns he cannot touch Manila prisoners; the Justice of the Peace belches advice that only Camorra can save Basilio, staring at Juli until she must go in person. Sister Bali cites Tandang Basio Macunat and Archbishop permission; Juli refuses the convento as damnation, endures relatives' mockery, and spends nights in nightmares where her father and Basilio beg her to save them while officials who command legal murders sleep in peace.
A traveller reports other prisoners freed but Basilio still bound for the Carolines after a forced voluntary petition; Juli, pale and frantic, dresses in her finest and hurries toward the convento with Sister Bali. At the door she clings to the wall until Bali threatens that Basilio will be shot on the road and cannot reproach her; Juli closes her eyes and enters like suicide. That afternoon whispers say a girl leaped from a convento window onto stones; another woman runs screaming, and mothers pinch daughters lest names slip. Tandang Selo, dumb since grief broke his speech, beats the closed convento door with fists and head, then finds every official at the convento while friars gather for a conference; he vanishes from the village with his hunting-spear.
Rizal closes Juli's arc where colonial patronage meets predation: holy water debates, clerk fees, and belching magistrates all point one way. When the law cannot reach Manila, the body becomes currency. Who counts Juli as martyrdom, scandal, or necessary cost while Basilio sails toward exile?
