Summary

In Chapter 15, the young boy’s mother falls into a state of silence and his father turns to alcohol. He carries on managing the ferry services alone. One evening, a gentleman names Mr. Crowe boards the ferry and tells him that he has business to settle with Alderman Swaine’s niece, Lucy. After ferrying his passenger, the young boy visits his mother to give her the money he saved and places a daisy chain on his sister’s grave. That evening, when he is sleeping in the ferry house, the young boy hears a noise on the dock. When he emerges, he sees his ferry out on the water with Mr. Crowe, Lucy, and his father aboard. Alderman Swaine approaches the dock shouting at Crowe that he “will find [Lucy], by God, if [he] has to raze every kennel in town” (230). Swaine...