Chapters 13 and 14 Summary

While Sughrue is spending some time doing small jobs, he gets a phone call from Trahearne asking him to come down and visit, since Melinda's gone on one of her trips. Soon afterward, he gets a phone call from Rosie, saying she had a phone call from Jimmy Joe telling her that he had a postcard from Betty Sue. Sughrue immediately packs up the car and heads out to California, determined to talk to Selma Hinds and find out why she lied. As he's pulling into her driveway he sees Melinda's car, and puts two and two together—he realizes that Melinda is Betty Sue, that Trahearne suspected it, and that Trahearne had wanted Sughrue to do the work of finding out the truth. When Sughrue confronts Melinda and Selma with the truth, Selma goes to pieces, crying out that...