Kumalo and Msimangu follow Absalom's trail only to learn that Absalom has been in a reformatory and impregnated a young woman | |
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Jarvis learns of his son's death and comes with his family to Johannesburg | Jarvis and his son had been distant, and now the father begins to know his son through his writings |
Msimangu urges Kumalo to come to the city to help his sister Gertrude, because she is ill.
30Absalom is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur Jarvis | Shortly thereafter, Kumalo learns that his son has been arrested for the murder during a burglary of Arthur Jarvis who was an engineer , a white activist for racial justice and son of Kumalo's neighbour James Jarvis |
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The novel ends on the morning the sun rise after Absalom's execution | She agrees to return to the village with her young son |