After the first part of the story, the narrator returns to the scene of the crime. He tells the audience that he is not the murderer, but that he has burned the two men. He asks them to go to the spot where the crime was committed, and he promises to pay them back. The narrator then realizes that the human pillars are human sacrifices used to suppress evil. The human pillars were used in the past to bury children who were killed by the bridge's collapse.