I'm asked to breakfast. They're cotton pickers, working twelve days already. They go to work. The Raid Root and Dick head out of a packing plant town on a dark night, stopping finally at an abandoned store where they put up posters. After an hour a man warns them to leave, but they have orders to hold it.
Root greets the raiders as comrades and is hit with a club.
He stands again and passes out. He wakes in a hospital cell. Dick says they'll probably get six months. The Harness Randall's ranch east of Salinas and across the river is an ideal blend of bottomland and upland. After Peter's annual business trips Emma becomes sick for several weeks and the neighbors bring cakes and pies.