Chapters 29 - 30 Summary

Christy spends the night at the McHones, and the night is interrupted with Tom and his father, Uncle Bogg, coming into the cabin. Tom is a hunted man, a fugitive, and he feels like a trapped animal. Uncle Bogg, the county squire, is unable to fix the mess his son is in. They all decide that Tom's best chance of survival is to get to the Mission House before dawn. Tom gazes at the faces of his children, pats Opal's hand, telling her it is soon to be over one way or another. The next morning Christy walks the three McHone children to school, but as they approach the mission house it is obvious something has happened. Tom McHone is dead, shot in the back no more than three hundred yards from the Mission House. Isaak insists on seeing his father...