Summary

In Chapter 50, William discovers a wagon with two Union men driving. He believes they will help him. He excitedly shares how he needs to find Jacob, but the men laugh at him and call him the n-word. They accuse him of being a deserter. They tell him to get in the back of the wagon and that they are going close to Algiers.

In Chapter 51, Lily has a nightmare that Jacob is injured. She knows she is not a medium, but she feels something is wrong with him. Her father tells her that as a musician, he is likely safer than other fighters, but this angers her. Lily has never known much about what happens after death. Her father told her that her mother was in “the world to come,” but “their future together was the only place Lily truly believed was the...