Chapters 11 and 12 Summary

Chapter 11 - Because Herbert hasn't been in school for three days, Ida decides to go to the Bixler farm and see if he's all right. When she gets there, she's shocked and saddened to see how poor and badly maintained it is. She is met by Mr. Bixler, who she tells that she's a classmate of Herbert's and that everyone at the school is wondering where he is. Mr. Bixler tells her that Herbert is needed at the farm, and that he told Miss Fletcher to no longer bother coming out to find out where he was. This startles Ida into confessing that she is in fact Herbert's teacher and then into explaining how it all came to happen. Mr. Bixler tells her gently but firmly that what happens on his farm is none of her business and that Herbert doesn't...