Summary

In Chapter Fourteen, it is said Williams Blount and his two sons are killed when they enter McCullough land to kill a deer. Public opinion of the McCullough family has continued to decline as the family blocks the building of a highway through their land. The people congregate at the ranch’s main gate until Rangers are sent and the sheriff is allowed to search the ranch for bodies. Nothing is found. Jeanne remembers being her great-grandfather’s favorite even though her father seems jealous. When she isn’t with her great-grandfather, Jeanne spends her time raising the calves that have been abandoned by their mothers. At the age of twelve she has earned $10,000 from these calves.

Jeanne also spends time at the old Garcia home place. Her father has told her the version of the story about the death of the Garcias...