Handling Sin: A Novel Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 2, The Quest: Chapters 14-16, Sudden Impulses Overwhelm Our Hero; In Which Is Continued a Conversation Begun Thirty Years Ago; In Which Raleigh and Mingo Fall into a Swamp Summary

Part 2, The Quest: Chapters 14-16, Sudden Impulses Overwhelm Our Hero; In Which Is Continued a Conversation Begun Thirty Years Ago; In Which Raleigh and Mingo Fall into a Swamp Summary

In Chapter 14, Raleigh and Mingo have breakfast with the nuns, after which a group of them fetches the Cadillac. One of the nuns comes from a career in crime. She expertly opens the locked car and removes the radio for the convent. Raleigh and Mingo do not mind since the car is stolen anyway. Raleigh calls Jimmy, owner of the Cadillac, and asks him to arrange financing with Aura, thus turning the stolen vehicle into a purchased car. He offers a two-hundred dollar donation to the convent before he and Mingo depart.

In Chapter 15, Raleigh visits Flonnie Rogers in a retirement home. He tries to get information out of her about Jubal, but she has no information on his whereabouts or what he has been doing other than playing clarinet somewhere, probably on the street for passerby donations. The TV in...
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