Cities of the Plain Chapter Summary & Analysis - Ch. II Pg. 83-106 Summary

Ch. II Pg. 83-106 Summary

John Grady waits in a hotel, but she does not show up. Having gone back to the ranch and his bunk, he is there when Billy comes back from a dance at Mesilla. Billy asks him if he has been seeing a girl and John Grady tells him he is.

He goes back to the White Lake, but can not afford to see Magdalena. She gets a message to him through one of the waiters, "She say you no forget her."

The next night he meets the blind man and his daughter at the Moderno where they listen to musicians play and watch people dance.

Billy, JC, Archer, John Grady and Travis take the dogs out at night to hunt a mountain lion. While the dogs hunt they sit around the campfire and tell stories of the Mexican Revolution and their travels across the country. When the dogs come in...
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