Chapter 8 Summary

Lightening and thunder startle Cowboy Dashee and Jim Chee as they climb out of Jim's car in the jail parking lot. They indulge in friendly banter with Mrs. Sosi, the woman at the desk, and Cowboy Dashee claims that it must rain because the Zuni are having their rodeo today. It is a standing joke that the Zuni always have the rain dance ceremony before the rodeo, and the rodeo always gets rained out. Mrs. Sosi says she once asked the Zuni why they didn't wait until after the rodeo to do the rain dance, and they had told her that having it before rodeo kept the cowboys from getting hurt.

When Cowboy and Jim ask to see Tuve, Mrs. Sosi informs them that a lady attorney named Joanna Craig showed up with a $50,000 cashier's check and bailed him out. She says that...