Part 2, Chapter 15 Summary

On the train, Carlos falls asleep as darkness sets in. He awakens to hear a girl being assaulted. He arises to try to help and is hit over the head and knocked unconscious.

When the train reaches Portland, they walk around together and find a train headed to California. They get on the train and fall asleep. When Carlos wakes up the next morning the girl is gone and he finds out that he is in Reno, Nevada. He finds a train to California. The hoboes on the train tell him that there is a sizeable Filipino community in Stockton so he heads there.

In Stockton he finds Chinatown and a lot of gambling houses. He stops for a cup of tea and while he is sitting there drinking a Chinese man shoots a Filipino and Carlos runs. When he stops...