What is a short summary of The Lord Rides a Swift Cloud from the collection, The King Is Always Above the People?

In the story, The Lord Rides a Swift Cloud, the narrator meets a man named Marcial in a bar on his travels. Marcial follows the narrator home and they strike up a conversation. Marcial eventually admits that he had originally planned to rob the narrator at knifepoint. The narrator later returns to the apartment he shared with his estranged wife, from which their neighbors have looted all the furniture.