Chapter 13 Summary

In Chapter 13, Slake reads about the train accident in the newspaper. Sixteen people are injured. No one is dead. The falling concrete is an immediate danger and the city needs to fix it. The renovation will last a long time. He sees a picture of the damaged train. Slake reads it as his death sentence. He is really upset. He will be without a home again. He turns depressed and miserable as he sits in his hideout. He starts to feels sick. He has chills, a fever and goes in and out of sleep. He has crazy dreams.

Many days go by. He is still sick. He does not eat for 30 hours. He wakes up to hammering in the tunnel. He sees the lights of the construction car. He knows the city has come to fix the concrete. He takes a piece of...