Chapter Eleven Summary

Meg's sudden entrance awakens her startled captors. They shout to awaken one another. Meg panics and realizes she must take desperate action. She hurls herself into a closed window and smashes through the boards, landing outside the building in a narrow alleyway. Meg sees an electrical generator line leading into the warehouse. Realizing this is the source of light and power for her kidnappers in the otherwise dark building, Meg yanks the cord out. The kidnappers scream and curse in the darkness.

Meg races into the nearest street. To her disappointment, the entire neighborhood is abandoned, an industrial no man's land. There is no one around to hear her cries for help. She sees a closed gas station. Two flags still fly from its flag poles. Meg has a sudden idea. She races over and knocks the flags down. They crash...