Summary

Chapter 11 – Georgie and Billy arrive in Dog Hollow, a beautiful town through which the Smoke River, a branch of the Wisconsin, flows. Georgie is given money to buy some bread and cheese. She asks the local general store workers if they have seen Agatha, and shows them Agatha’s photo. They are aware of the body found on Miller Road, eight miles from town. The store owner says that Agatha was traveling with a man who gave his name as Metcalf, and sold pigeon dung medicines to the general store. The owner doubts the man’s real name was Metcalf, or that he was a good man. Georgie travels all over town seeking information, and finds a man who did see Agatha come through with another woman and a man.

Georgie then sees Billy leaving the Western Union office, and realizes that Billy has...