Chapter 6 Summary

Jerome stays in his camp a week. He is glad to get back in his house after picking up four wood ticks and a bad stomach because he doesn't know how to cook that well outside. He does complete Charmine's monument and erects it. Emma Lou feels she has earned a real victory. She scouts around the woods after the incident but never runs into either Roger Donald or Strong Heart. Word is that after Strong Heart had been descented, he hadn't been allowed out of his locked yard. Roger Donald visits Jerome a few times but never encounters Emma Lou.

Since Jerome enjoys working with his tools again, he decides to create a statue of Old Grouch. Emma Lou is so excited about it that he decides to give it to her when he completes it. Toward the middle of August, Mama...