Chapter 13 Summary

It's New Year's Day, and Little Man waits for Stacey by the window all day long. Mr. Jamison comes over and tells everyone that he has a message from the Buford Sheriff. The Sheriff has information about some boys who work a plantation near Baton Rouge. Mr. Jamison will have to wait until tomorrow to call the Sheriff back. Mama and Papa will meet him at his office in the morning. Everyone spends a restless night waiting.

Early in the morning, Mama wakes Cassie up and tells her that Mrs. Lee Annie will go register this day, and that Cassie may come along. She also tells Cassie that no matter what happens, she must not say a word.

Uncle Hummer, Mama, Papa and Cassie, followed by Mr. Morrison, the Ellises, Tom Bee, Russell and Wordell, drive to Strawberry. Thinking that the men could...