Pages 229 through 242 Summary

Culla struggles with his injured leg to a campfire, where sits the bearded man in the black suit, his two henchmen, and a squalling baby. The tinker is dead, hanging from a tree. The baby has only one eye and has a healed burn down one side of him. The bearded man confronts Culla about the baby and about his sister. The man says that Culla used the baby as trade with the tinker. The bearded man suggests that Culla was having the tinker hide the baby for him. Culla denies it all. The bearded man tells Culla to bring the baby to him. Culla is afraid and tells the man that his sister will care for the child. The bearded man takes the child and slits his throat. The man hands the baby back to Culla.

Rinthy comes across the...