Chapter Twenty-Two Summary

Peekay rushes back home to tend to Doc's affairs. At first, he helps with the search attempts for Doc himself, and then for Doc's body, but he keeps his promise and tells no one of the crystal cave. He is having difficulty coming to terms with the death for the simple fact that it was peaceful and even expected, whereas in his experience death has always been sudden and somewhat grotesque. He realizes that Doc had fooled people into giving him sleeping pills, which he had not taken but rather had stored up for his trip to the cave. Several people, such as Gert, suspect that Peekay knows where Doc is, but they do not press the issue. The Apostolic Faith Mission has a funeral which most of the people in the community attend in order to pay their last respects...