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the letter he wrote her to the jury. Maria Clara explains to Ibarra that she will never conspire against

him but that she was forced to surrender Ibarra's letter to her in exchange for the letters written by

her mother even before she, Maria Clara, was born. The letters were from her mother, Pia Alba, to

Father Dmaso alluding to their unborn child; and that she, Maria Clara, is therefore not the daughter

of Capitan Tiago, but of Father Dmaso.

Afterwards, Ibarra and Elias board a boat and flee the place. Elias instructs Ibarra to lie down and the

former covers the latter with grass to conceal the latter's presence. As luck would have it, they are

spotted by their enemies. Elias thinks he could outsmart them and jumps into the water. The guards

rain shots on the person in the water, all the while not knowing that they are aiming at the wrong man.

Maria Clara, thinking that Ibarra has been killed in the shooting incident, is greatly overcome with

grief. Robbed of hope and severely disillusioned, she asks Father Dmaso to confine her into a nunnery.

Father Dmaso reluctantly agrees when Maria Clara threatens to take her own life: the nunnery or

death!

Unbeknownst to her, Ibarra is still alive and able to escape. It was Elias who has taken the shots.

It is Christmas Eve when Elias arrives at the Ibarra forest, gravely wounded and barely alive. It is in this

forest that Elias finds Basilio and his lifeless mother, Sisa. Elias dies without having seen the liberation

of his country.