How does Bierce play with the reader’s expectations in the third section?

In the third section, Farquhar seems to escape the hanging: he frees his hands, avoids the soldiers’ shots, and makes his way home. Bierce describes the escape in vivid detail, encouraging the reader to hope that Farquhar will survive. The ending reveals that this journey happened only in the instant before his death, so the expectation being played with is that he may escape his fate.

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