Summary

Johanna and Captain Kidd arrive in the mostly Polish town of Bandera. The Captain rends the Davenport Mercantile for another reading, and again Johanna collects dimes from the audience. With enough funds now to make it to Castroville, they continue and Captain Kidd explains to Johanna that she is going back to her aunt and uncle. She begins to cry, and demands that “Konta laff!” (180). Johanna continues to weep, wondering where “Kontah” will go after he delivers her to her relatives.

After turning west off the road to San Antonio, Johanna and the Captain arrive in Castroville. From a local, Captain Kidd learns where Wilhelm and Anna Leonberger—Johanna’s uncle and aunt—live, and they go to visit the graves of Johanna’s parents and younger sister are at St. Dominic’s Church. Johanna does not understand, and merely gazes at the headstones...