Winslow gets his mouth wired shut then goes to work for the guy the destroyed it with his gun. While there the farmer arranges for Winslow to get in "Fights" where people paid to hit him and whoever could knock the wind out of him in one punch made money (They never win because Winslow is a beast). The only reason that Winslow agrees to this is not for the money he gets, but because he sees this as a pennance for his wrongdoing. After a while of doing this he misses his wife and wants to see her again.
He gets in a final fight and while scoping out the competition he sees the Train driver he keeps looking for the driver and spots him again, he doesn't prepare for the fight and gets knocked down for the first time. He wakes up in the hospital, and a day later his wife walks in! She takes him home and they don't talk lot.
The foreshadowing that I thought would happen happened, Winslow goes to church and sees all of the people that he thought would judge him kinda freaks out and runs away from his wife into a muddy feild toward the woods. The congregation comes out and the preist runs toward him and gives him a hug. In this foreshadowing Winslow was the dog, and the congregation was Winslow trying to accept the "dog".
The very last words that are said in this story are "Your hair has turned so white." White hair is the one of the only things that Winslow remembers about the Train conductor. This makes me think that when he saw the conductor in the bar all he really saw was himself in a mirror.
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