Summary

Chapter 39 begins on August 30, 1960 when Mildred Remlinger came to pick up Dell and Berner and drive them to Canada. Berner left the day before, so Dell and Mildred drove north to Havre, Montana where they stopped at a sandwich shop and Dell ate while Mildred smoked. After lunch, they continued to drive north and Mildred informed Dell that she was taking him to Saskatchewan to live with her brother Arthur for a while. She emphasized that it was only temporary and that his mother wanted it this way. Dell objected to the plan, but Mildred told him that if they went back, she would be arrested for kidnapping him and that he would end up in an orphanage. Dell accepted his plight and asked himself what he had to lose. “The answer seemed to be very little” (214).

Mildred and Dell crossed the...