Chapter 8 Summary

Eliot and Sylvia agree to meet at the Marott Hotel in Indianapolis. This is supposed to be their final farewell. Mushari eavesdropped on the phone call and doesn't like the fact that they are planning to meet. Mushari's plans would be defeated if Sylvia became pregnant. Then there would be an heir to the Foundation presidency and Mushari wouldn't be able to push Fred Rosewater, the Rhode Island relative, for the position. Fred knows nothing of his relationship to the Foundation Rosewaters, or that Mushari is planning to place him on the board, taking a share of the money as his fee. Fred is known to the Indiana Rosewater's because of the detective work of McAllister's law firm.

While Eliot and Sylvia are meeting in Indianapolis, Fred is shopping at the Pisquontuit Drug Store and News Store. Pisquontuit is a village of two...