Chapter 7 Summary

Sonny and Dwayne play pool with Jerry Framingham, as Dwayne complains because Jacy has gone to a country club dance with Lester Marlow and didn't seem all that sad about it. Jerry drives a cattle truck and invites the boys to drive a truck full of yearlings to Fort Worth that night, and they agree. First Sonny and Dwayne stop off at the all-night diner to have a chicken fried steak with Sam the Lion. Dwayne asks Sam the Lion how rich Gene Farrow is, and Sonny and Dwayne are stunned when Sam the Lion tells them Gene probably only has fifty dollars in his pocket with everything else wrapped up in goods and mixed up with bank credit. Sam the Lion predicts that there won't be much more because the oil fields are drying up and the cattle business dying. Dwayne is...