Summary

This chapter takes place briefly after Chapter 18 and is narrated by Scotty. Darlene thought about Sirius during this period, and she even walked over to the culvert and began talking to it. Scotty complained that Darlene was keeping Eddie away from him even though he began to smoke cigarettes at age 15.

One day, the workers were sent to a citrus orchard in order to pick limes. Hannibal noticed that the trees were key lime trees that did not make fruit outside of Florida, meaning the wrong lime trees had been planted. Darlene (while high) was standing on a ladder not picking limes (because there were none) when she spotted a white Subaru. She met Jarvis and Frank, two newspaper writers who interviewed her and mentioned a man by the name of Marvin Jenkins. Darlene made little sense during the interview, but...