Pages 195 through 228 Summary

On his quest for work and to locate his sister, Culla comes upon an abandoned cabin in the woods. The rustic cabin was in disrepair and overrun with vermin and insects. Culla gathers some wood and makes a fire as the season is turning cold. He falls asleep on one of the cabin's crusty mattresses and wakens to the end of a double-barreled shotgun. The man holding the weapon forces Culla outside and down the road. The man does not allow Culla to put his boots on and forces him to walk on the cold terrain for miles.

They finally come to another cabin, where a man is in the middle of his breakfast. The man with the gun tells the other man that Culla was trespassing on his property. Culla defends himself, saying that he did not break in and...