Summary

In Chapter 5, which returns to Hannie’s story, Hannie decides to continue pretending to be a boy so she can drive the carriage that Missy has requested and find out where she and Juneau are going. Hannie remembers how glad she was when she was finally released from her duties of caring for Missy. Missy was mean. When Missy was only five-years-old, she put rat poisoning in Hannie’s food just to see what would happen. Hannie hears Missy promise Juneau, who is riding a gray horse, that she will follow their father’s orders.

Hannie is more fearful the further they get from home. When they enter a dirty, busy town, an old Black man warns Hannie she needs to get the ladies out of town, it is not a good place for them. Missy points out a building where she claims...