'Michael', pg. 144 - 181 Summary

Michael realizes he is on thin ice with Dalva, and stays straight for several weeks. The morning after his bar visit, Dalva fixes his lunch, and he asks her about Duane. She is clearly bothered, so Michael changes the subject, while Dalva tells him she will be gone for several days. When Michael goes back to work, he is reminded that Northridge tries for twenty-five years to teach the native population to farm, while his own government is constantly taking away the barely fertile farmland given to them in the fist place. However, he notes, that is part of history. What is not is the reaction of such men as Northridge, and that is what Michael is striving to reveal.

In the next journal section, Nothridge explained that there are months missing from the journals because he was lost...