Chapters 27-28 Summary

At Salt Lake, Oliver follows cars to the Great Salt Lake where he frets about Joley. Oliver believes that he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley or Joley will poison them against him. He remembers Joley boycotting their wedding only to relent and make a pest of himself at the wedding. He is jealous and suspicious of the close relationship between Joley and Jane. At the Great Salt Lake, Oliver imagines whales breaching the salty water. After a bi-plane flies overhead, Oliver reasons that Jane and Rebecca will revisit the plane crash site in Iowa on the way to Massachusetts. He recalls the behavior modification therapy that Jane took Rebecca to in hope of overcoming her fear of planes. It was a failure. He knows that Jane will not take Rebecca out of the country by plane...