Chapter 123 Summary

Sampson and Cross sit talking on Cross' porch on a fall afternoon. Sampson asks Cross if he is doing alright and if he misses Kate. Cross explains that Kate needs to set up practice in her hometown in West Virginia. Cross needs to tend to his children. Cross relays a story of Kate's toughness. When she was twenty, she found out that her father was working as a bartender at a honky-tonk near the Kentucky border. She went there one night to see him. She had not seen him in 16 years. She hated seeing him like that and left without talking to him.

Late that night, Cross hears a noise from his back door. He senses trouble and grabs his gun. It's Sampson. There has been another murder.

Chapter 123 Analysis

Sampson, as Cross' twin, realizes that he misses Kate. He realizes that maybe...