Part 8, Chapter 36-37: The Wind's Own Private Thoroughfare and Things the Mirror Shows, Things the Mirror Doesn't Summary

The man sits and waits for the Rat for several days. As he is reading a book, he finds a newspaper clipping of the ad he had taken out in the paper in the book's pages. He realizes that while the Rat did not seek him out, he did lead him to the villa, suggesting that whatever he was supposed to find was not with the Rat, but in the villa. The following day, he goes for a walk, and finds the Sheep Man. When the man asks why he is hiding in the mountains, the sheep reveals he did not want to go to war. The man returns to the...