Part Two: Set Free - Chapter Nine Summary

On the day they depart for Putnam County, Ob is in an extremely cheerful mood as he packs up the car. When they set off, Cletus immediately begins talking about the new magazines he got from a neighbor who just emptied out the reading material in his outhouse. And with that, the trip commences. Cletus and Ob chatter to each other for the first few minutes, but as they pull away from Deep Water, a silence falls over the car.

That silence isn't broken until they start to see signs for the capital, Charleston. Then Cletus begins to talk nervously about how he's never seen the capital and can't wait to see it in person, not photographs. He's seen only one photograph of the capital - a black and white photo...