Chapter 21, Victory on the Victory; Chapter 22, Roger Kapok; Chapter 23, Granny Next; Chapter 24, Home Again Summary

In Chapter 21, Thursday is taken back in time by her father. They experience a battle between Admiral Nelson and the French, in which her father saves Nelson's life by using a slingshot to hit him with a musket ball in the knee. This causes Nelson to bend over just as a sniper shoots and misses him. They travel quickly forward into time, and he leaves her with Bowden. Before doing so, he warns her that she must keep the Goliath Corporation from stopping Roger Kapok from playing croquet. He is the star player for the Swindon Mallots.

In Chapter 22, Thursday warns Kapok about the Goliath Corporation, but shortly afterward, two men from the corporation convince Kapok not...