- After a week of searching, the town decides to hold a service for Doc. Peekay is numb from the death because even though he has seen several violent deaths in his life, he's never known anyone to die slowly and gently.
- Gert is sure that Peekay knows where Doc's gone off to, but Peekay keeps Doc's secret.
- It turns out that Doc had actually been gone for three days, Peekay finds out from Dee and Dum, not just one, so he had had plenty of time to get a head start from the search parties.
- Peekay goes out to the campground where they had slept the night before they discovered the crystal cave, and finds signs that Doc had been there.
- He climbs the cliff and finds, buried in the rock, Doc's knife, pocket watch, and a farewell note for Peekay with a piece of music written on the back. Doc writes that it came to him in his head, and that is how he knew it was time to go. When Peekay picks out the notes on Doc's piano, he realizes that the music he wrote down was the chant to the Tadpole Angel, which Doc had never heard.
- At the train station heading back to school, Gert notices Peekay take the pocket watch out and look at it. He is happy that Peekay found Doc, and doesn't press him for any more information.
- When Peekay gets back to school he finds that Gideon Mandoma and some other black boxers are going to be his training partners. He and Morrie get the idea to start a school for them when Gideon wants to learn English. They ask Singe 'n' Burn, who agrees after some guilt-tripping by the boys.
- The school is held on Saturday nights at the Prince of Wales School, and its popularity grows like wildfire. A newspaper reporter even comes and takes pictures, which gets the boys in hot water. The very next week policemen come to shut down the school, claiming that the black students will not be home by curfew.
- Morrie asks the police officer for a warrant, and it turns out they wrote down the name of the wrong school, and are unable to raid the class.
- In a meeting with Singe 'n' Burn and the police officer, it is made clear that the police will do what they can to stop the school. The boys are down, but not defeated. They convert the school into Miss Bornstein's Famous Correspondence School, and the classes continue by letter.