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Darl and Jewel arrive home. Darl tells Jewel that it is not his horse that is dead, implying that Addie has died instead.

Cash complains that his coffin will not balance. One of his brothers, likely Jewel, commands him to lift it anyway.

Darl is carrying the coffin with Cash and Jewel. Jewel’s fury and vigor leads him to carry the coffin singlehandedly, and to put it in the wagon bed.