Summary

Chapter 22 is titled “The Chisel in the Crack.” Faith writes a letter to Dr. Jacklers, apologizing for “bothering you with my fancies” (232) and offers to let him measure her head if he visits again. He takes her up on the offer the next day. He talks about his theories and winds up tightening his instruments so that it is painful for Faith, all in an effort to make her measurements match his theory. He grudgingly admits that her head is larger than he predicted, and puts it down to intelligence inherited from Erasmus. Both Dr. Jacklers and Clay have sent Myrtle gifts, and she makes sure to mention Clay's gift. She asks if she might document some of the cross sections of the excavation site. She shows him some sketches, passing them off as her observations from a site though she actually copied...