Summary

Chapter Six begins the next morning after Jeremy has eaten an early breakfast at the lodge and has left Cloudwater to drive to Pike Hollow. During his drive, Jeremy narrates how he regrets promising Jessup that he would ask around the town. However, since Jessup had asked him as a personal favor and they were to have dinner together later that night, he could make a slight effort then report he had found nothing which would then allow him to get on with finishing his monograph. As he drives along Route 3A, Jeremy begins to feel the absence of human civilization around him and he worries about his Lotus Elan S4 breaking down and not having a mechanic in the region that would be able to fix the car. Not only that, but the forest gave him the feeling that he was an...