Chapters 18 through 23 Summary

Bob continues to drive until he reaches a desert area. He's stolen several cars, lived on candy bars and Cokes and is glad he had two hundred dollars in his wallet. He arrives in a trailer park, sees Julie Fenn's name on a mailbox and is relieved to know she hasn't moved. The flowers he sent every Christmas went to Julie, though he doubts she accepted them. She always returned his letters unopened. Now he tells her he didn't try to assassinate anyone and she takes him in. A registered nurse, she bandages his wounds, gives him antibiotic to prevent infection, and cares for him for days as he begins to recuperate. She says that she knows he wouldn't have killed the archbishop because Donny would have sniffed out any evil in Bob during their time together. As he begins to...