Part 3, The Return: Chapters 31-33, What Passed between Our Hero and His Father; How Raleigh Was Ordained in The Cave; What Raleigh Decided about Death Summary

In Chapter 3,1 the group makes it to New Orleans. Raleigh delivers everything and everybody his father asked for, except Jubal Rogers. They go to a jazz club where a band is playing and the young Black woman named Billie, and who Earley had taken with him from the Thermopylae hospital, sings extraordinarily well. Earley tells Raleigh that Victoria is in town. Raleigh meets with her, and she admits that Billie is her granddaughter.

In Chapter 32, Early explains the importance of the items that Raleigh had collected in the scavenger hunt. The plaster bust contains a...