Chapter 22 Summary

The next day Dick runs into Eddie Wormsley and they are able to buy some inexpensive wire and other materials at a salvage-warehouse. On the way home he picks up Elsie on her bike, and gives her a ride. She begins rattling on and on about having to spend the previous night shuttling some cops in the Whaler. She mentions that there was a coast-wide alert for drug smugglers, but all she found was a couple of kids who got away into one of the marshes.

They arrive at Elsie's house, and Dick is surprised to learn she has recently bought a tip of land from Miss Perry, and it has a house which looks almost like a tool shed. The house consists of one long room with a kitchen and a fireplace at one end, and some shiny material screens off the...