Chapter 11 Summary

Wednesday, December 3, 12:15 p.m. Leaphorn talks to a young man with his blond hair put up in a bun. Hair in a Bun is welding something in the commune's school bus. He is clearly startled to be interrupted by a cop. Leaphorn asks him what he's welding, but Halsey interrupts and answers for him. Halsey tells Leaphorn that Susanne has nothing else to say. Leaphorn informs Halsey and Hair in a Bun that if he can't talk to Susanne, he might have to kill some time examining the school bus. Pressured in this way, Halsey agrees to take Leaphorn to Susanne, who is over near the windmill some hundred and fifty yards from the commune. At the windmill, Halsey stands behind Leaphorn as he questions Susanne. Susanne refuses to say much until Leaphorn drives Halsey away.

Susanne tells Leaphorn that he's wrong to...