Part 1, Chapter 7 Summary

Section 1 - Will dresses, leaves his study, and goes to town, abandoning Kitty to solitude as she waits for him. In town, he mails the letter to Sutter and buys some minor supplies. He makes sure he is seen and ensures that the store clerk notices he is in a particularly good mood as he allows her to assume he is on his way to a fishing trip. He then walks to the golf course and nonchalantly walks to the fissure that leads to Lewis' cave. Will squeezes into the fissure and then crawls along a very narrow passage until he arrives at a steep but larger opening. He continues for some time until he comes to the area of the cave with which he is familiar. There he explores until he finds a particular feature he is interested in. He...