Chapter 17 Summary

Alice sneaks Barbie's bag into the bathroom that night and discovers that it is full of silver dollars. Taylor confronts Barbie about the cache of silver the next morning and Barbie replies that the manager kept the key in the cash register, so she just helped herself. Taylor tells her she doesn't want an encounter with the police, but Barbie assures her that the manager wouldn't call the police because it would draw attention to his gaming odds, which are not within legal limits.

Taylor calls Jax and he tells her about the letter from Annawake and that he has had sex with Gundi. She goes and gets Alice to talk with him. Alice comes out of the phone booth crying and announces that she is going to Oklahoma to stay with her cousin, Sugar, who is married to a Cherokee, so she...