Summary

Dell sensed something amiss when his father got home one evening in Chapter 7, and the next day his family had a strange visitor by the name of Marvin “Mouse” Williams, a Cree Indian who had trouble walking and was dressed in heavy clothes despite its being August. Bev confronted Williams before he could walk up to the house and said to him “Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa…You don’t need to be showing up here now. This is my home…This is going to get settled” (47). They had a tense conversation only part of which Dell could discern—he did hear Williams say “This could turn out real bad for everybody” (48)—then the man left. Later Bev told the twins that Williams was a “businessman” who was “honest and demanding” (49), but Dell eventually found out that Williams had threatened to kill his father (or perhaps...