Summary

Gertrude introduced Damon to Chester Hobnobber, a waiter at a restaurant called the Bluegum. Damon noticed others looking at them and had the feeling that Gertrude was keeping something from him. When he commented that she was being cryptic, she laughed.

At the Bryant house, Daisy and Charlene discovered that while cleaning up the scenes of their respective husbands’ murders they had each found a small cross. Charlene commented that the crosses were pretty and that she liked to keep hers in her pocket and rub it through her jeans.

While Ed, Jim, and Hind were driving towards Money, they were pulled over by a state trooper. When they made jokes in response to the trooper’s questions, he became angry, called them “darkies” (153) and ordered them out of the car. Upon realizing that they were police, he let them go, but first...