Eusabio visits the priest and realizes that Latour is dying. The Archbishop tells Bernard that he has seen two wrongs made right: the end of slavery and the return of the Navajos to their own country.
During the Bishop's middle years in New Mexico, he had witnessed the persecution of the Navajos. Latour admired the tribe, and was troubled deeply by the ill treatment they received. Kit Carson had conquered the last of them by destroying their cornfields and peach orchards. Eusabio asks Latour to meet with the Navajo leader, Manuelito. Manuelito asks the Bishop to plead the Navajo's case to the politicians in Washington, D.C. Latour tells Manuelito that a Roman Catholic priest has little authority with a Protestant government. Manuelito does not believe Latour and goes into hiding from Kit Carson. The government reverses its policy toward the Navajos five years later, and they return to their sacred lands. In 1875, Latour and his architect visit the Navajos.
In his final days, Latour refuses food. His diocese prays for him. He receives the last rites. His final thoughts are of him reassuring Vaillant to give him the courage to go to the New World missions. He dies that night.
