Summary

Chapter 15.

Bone and Grey decide to stage their raid on Woolworth’s using the hook Bone retrieved from the river near Aunt Raylene’s. They wait until dark, and then creep out of Alma’s house and run to town. Bone is distressed and angry when she discovers Grey painted her beloved hook, but she accepts it and they go to work. Bone climbs on the roof of the Woolworth store, and lets herself in through the fan vent. She loses her footing and tumbles into the store breaking things as she and the hook fall. She lets Grey in the front door and he fills a pillowcase with cigarettes and other treasures.

When they leave, Bone takes nothing but the hook. As they run through town on the way back to Alma’s she yells at a group of men that the doors to...