Summary

I Am Sent East by Northeast – Sam hikes down to see Mrs. Strawberry. She reveals that Alice is up to a new project, but she doesn’t know what it is. Sam tells her that Alice has left home, and Mrs. Strawberry tells Sam not to worry, that she last saw Alice three days before. Sam realizes this is the day after Frightful was taken. He and Alice can walk twenty miles in one day, which means she may have gone as far as sixty miles since then. Sam wishes Alice would have at least told him where she was going. Mrs. Strawberry remembers that Alice was leading her pet pig, Crystal – a gift from Mr. Reilly – on a leash, which makes Mrs. Strawberry believe Alice is going off to find her own...