Chapter 41 Summary

As Dick begins to walk toward his truck, he sees the narrow lights of a Jeep pull up into his drive. Elsie gets out and asks her partner to take the Jeep and she'll get a ride home. Going up to Dick, she falls into him and tells him how glad she is to see him, and chides him for not being more demonstrative with her. He admits he is glad to see her, and then she asks him to take her to the old causeway where she has seen something she wants to investigate.

They go to the beach and in the distance they see the blue canoe. When they walk up to it they realize it has hardly been damaged, and Elsie grabs Dick and begins to cry, telling him that the only times she has cried in ages have all...