Chapter Ten - Eleven Summary

Grandpa Blakeslee and Miss Love Simpson get married. It dawns on Will that his time of mourning must be about over if his grandfather could get remarried.

Will heads out to go fishing with his dog, T.R. Will thinks about a girl named Lightfoot McLendon. She is a mill girl he knows from school. Will has a crush on her, and the thought of seeing her prompts him to want to walk through mill town.

Will makes it through mill town and to the fishing spot. He isn't having much luck when he happens to look up at the trestle over the creek. He decides to walk across them, though T.R. is too scared to follow.

Chapter Ten - Eleven Analysis

The civil war has caused a deeply-rooted hatred for the North among the people...