Two days after they had come to the inn, the curate and the barber worked out a plan to take Don Quixote back to the village without the help of Dorotea and Fernando.
They agreed on a price with a man who happened to be passing with an oxcart. Then they built a wooden cage, with bars like a grille, roomy enough for Don Quixote to fit inside.
Fernando and his companions, Don Luis’s servants, the patrolmen and even the innkeeper all covered their faces and changed their clothes. They wanted to look like people Don Quixote had never seen in this castle.