Chapters 11-17 Summary

Chapter 11: Temple wakes up in a strange place and is disoriented. The girl realizes that she is in a crib filled with cottonseed hulls. Temple goes into the kitchen to talk with Ruby. Temple realizes that the plantation has no bathroom and that she must go out to the barn. Temple does that but notices that a man is watching her the entire time. Temple runs back to the house to tell Ruby. Ruby tries to spirit Temple away again to a safe place. Temple comes face to face with a rat, which only ratchets up the girl's terror.

Chapter 12: There is a confrontation in the kitchen between Goodwin and Ruby. Ruby takes the baby and goes down to the stream where she sits to think. Popeye talks to Ruby about the trouble and then tells the cook that it is...