Though on the surface Mitchell is proceeding from a mistaken assumption, there is a deeper truth here. This dawn is the same "gloomy, clouded" one that we witnessed in the last paragraph of Part Two , and when next we see Nostromo, he will begin his revolt against exploitation, signifying the revolt of the laboring People. In that sense Mitchell will indeed be deprived of "his Capataz" -- the possessive and the title both emphasize that what will be lost is precisely Nostromo's fidelity.

In the phrase "all the future days" I hear a sorrowful suggestion that there can be no going back, once the People exchange their simple-hearted fidelity for the unattainable ambitions of class-consciousness.