Chapter 2 Summary

Memoir--The scene is set in Adrianople, where Greek civilians fill the muddy roads for miles, their belongings loaded on carts carrying everything they own. There seems to be no end to the line of people. The rain comes down, and on one of the carts, a woman is giving birth while a young girl holds a blanket over her and cries, sick with fear, looking at the baby being born.

Story--The short story is entitled, "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife." Nick's father has hired a few Indians from the camp to come and cut up some logs that have drifted onto his property from the log boom of a logging company. Among the men who come to work is Dick Boulton, a Mytis, who insists upon calling the logs stolen property, even though they are flotsam that will almost certainly never be...