Summary

Dell lay on his bed as it started to rain in Chapter 25. His father had fallen asleep while Berner was in her room and his mother worked in the kitchen. He thought about the fair ending, and took down volume B of the encyclopedia and read about the orderly world of the beehive. He recalled the time when he was sick with scarlet fever as his parents stood over him. He then falls asleep.

Dell woke up in Chapter 26 and ate a sandwich his mother had made him. She asked him to come into her bedroom where he saw her packing her suitcase. She told him that she was taking him and Berner to Seattle the next day and then eventually to Canada. Dell was upset because he wanted to stay in Great Falls to attend high school, but she told him...