Pages 77 through 94 Summary

Cullen Holme is walking the countryside looking for his sister. He comes across a man in the woods, who offers him a sip of whiskey. The man notices the sturdy-looking boots that Holme is wearing. The two men travel to a town called Cheatham, where Holme seeks work. He stops by a mercantile and learns that there is a big commotion at the church. It turns out that someone had dug up several coffins and exposed the dead people inside them. Holme looks in a wagon going by, seeing and smelling the decomposing bodies of several men. As Holme is walking down the street, he notices that several men are staring at him. Holme picks up the pace as the men are obviously following him. Holme loses the men in the woods.

Cullen comes across a farmer who offers him a...