Chapters 20-22 Summary

Chapter 20

Soon the whole town knows Duane McBride has died in a gruesome accident involving his father's combine. That evening, Mike and Dale sneak off to the McBride farm. While examining the field, they find several of the unnatural holes Mike had already found in the cemetery shed and under his house.

Chapter 21

There follows three solid weeks of rain, leading up to the 4th of July, and the millions of acres of corn surrounding Elm Haven stretched toward the sky until it was shoulder height. A fuse has blow in the basement of the Lawrence house and the room has flooded with two feet of water because the sump pump is no longer running. Dale's mother asks him to wade over to the box and replace the fuse. Dale gets the new fuse in and turns the switch on, activating...