Chapter Four Summary

Pisskop is still at the school, but the term is all but over. After supper, Mevrou summons Pisskop. She notices the blood on his shirt, and when she takes it off, she sees the mark that the stone from the Judge's catapult made. She is quite willing to believe the lie that the boy offers, telling her that he fell and landed on a rock.

As she is dressing the wound, Mevrou tells Pisskop that he is not going back to the farm as he thought. He learns that the outbreak of Newcastle disease killed all of his grandfather's chickens, whereupon the farm was sold and his grandfather relocated to the town of Barberton, in the Eastern Transvaal. The boy's grandfather has sent Mevrou some money so that she can buy him some new shoes and get him a ticket for...