Summary

Part III (continued) – Christmas comes on. Della is taken in by three nuns who own a cabin that serves as both hospital and outpost for people traveling through the high mountain passes in the Cascades. Also at the cabin are a man with a broken leg and a young woman who has miscarried on her way to her husband in Seattle. Della moves on with a group of mountaineer salesmen. In a town in the Methow Valley, she sees Michaelson under arrest. He is being sent to Chelan. All of the locals are happy to see this happening. This makes her reflect on how Jane’s plunging from the tree years before was no accidental, but suicide with the hope of peace in Heaven.

Della decides to go to Chelan. She goes to the prison and tells the guards she is turning herself in...