- Billy and Georgie are back in Dog Hollow. They've turned around and are heading home.
- Georgie questions her motives for the trip: Why can't she just face the fact that Agatha is dead?
- She's also annoyed at Billy and Grandfather Bolte and Sheriff McCabe for using her own plan to get her to accept Agatha's death.
- She's mad at herself for telling Mr. Olmstead about the kiss, and she blames herself for Agatha's death.
- When she looks in a mirror, Georgie realizes she messed up her face pretty badly by falling on a bunch of rocks in her temper tantrum.
- She realizes she needs to know one more thing, so she returns to the general store, where she asks Pin Eyes where the pigeoners went after they left Dog Hollow.
- Pin Eyes doesn't know for sure, but she thinks they seemed like possible associates of the Garrows, who are also unsavory characters.
- Georgie convinces Billy to follow one more lead by visiting the Garrows to see if they know anything.
- Reluctantly, Billy agrees and telegraphs this information back to Placid.