Chapters 23-25 Summary

Chapter 23

While delirious with fever, Mike imagines he is conversing with Duane. Duane suggests he asks his grandmother about the soldier, since it seems intent on getting to her. Mike quizzes his grandmother, who responds in blinks. Duane finds out she knew the soldier, and he begins to go through her old papers looking for more information.

Jim Harlen fishes his dad's old revolver out of the closet and goes off in the woods to learn to shoot it. Cordie Cooke arrives with her shotgun. She tells him that Tubby has returned from the dead and is trying to harm her. She believes Mr. Roon set Tubby on her because a few days ago she managed to shoot him in the arm when he and Van Skye arrived at the Rendering Plant. Cordie says they must gather all the children who...