Ch. 10. Flashback: Young Clint, Jared, and Coley are diving off a rope bridge. Coley says she'll have "plenty of babies" when she marries Clint. Clint reflects that he can't stay in Blood and marry Coley (or anyone else) because his offspring will be like Duquieu.
Ch. 11. The toddler Charlie Steiner has become a vampire, thanks to Gilda. His mother Louise, still fond of him against her better judgment, keeps him in a bear cage deep in the woods. Responding to his cries of "Charlie hungwy!" she lets him out of the cage, "feeds" him, and puts him back in. He has taken too much blood; she falls to the forest floor and dies.
Ch. 12. Portia Clark spends her first night in Blood, locked by the locals in her room. She walks up the mountain searching for Clint, and discovers Louise Steiner's body. Clint appears on horseback, guesses that "wolves" were responsible, and goes off to take care of the body. Portia continues climbing and has lunch in the shack with Sugie. Coley arrives looking for Clint, and is distant with Portia. This chapter is all described from Portia's POV; we learn she's a freelance writer thinking about doing a story on Blood. We see the food, customs, and countryside, all lovingly described, through her city-fied (Newark, NJ) perspective: for example, she has a breakfast of eggs and fried fatback (described as "crisp and sweet") and her host Sid has "salt fish"--fish rolled in batter and fried in lard.
Ch. 13. Searching for his wife Louise, Sam Steiner discovers a very hungry Charlie in the bear cage and lets him out. Things don't go well.
Ch. 14. Not suspecting what's going on with Sam and Charlie, Clint takes Louise's body to her home and lays it out on the floor for Sam to take care of. Later, he "sits up" with the deceased Jared's body. Jared's grandfather and surrogate Pap, a mean drunk named Sweck Brewster, shows up and taunts Clint. Sweck swears that Jared won't turn, and if he does Duquieu will kill him. Clint tells Sweck to leave town.
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Ch. 10. Flashback: Young Clint, Jared, and Coley are diving off a rope bridge. Coley says she'll have "plenty of babies" when she marries Clint. Clint reflects that he can't stay in Blood and marry Coley (or anyone else) because his offspring will be like Duquieu.
Ch. 11. The toddler Charlie Steiner has become a vampire, thanks to Gilda. His mother Louise, still fond of him against her better judgment, keeps him in a bear cage deep in the woods. Responding to his cries of "Charlie hungwy!" she lets him out of the cage, "feeds" him, and puts him back in. He has taken too much blood; she falls to the forest floor and dies.
Ch. 12. Portia Clark spends her first night in Blood, locked by the locals in her room. She walks up the mountain searching for Clint, and discovers Louise Steiner's body. Clint appears on horseback, guesses that "wolves" were responsible, and goes off to take care of the body. Portia continues climbing and has lunch in the shack with Sugie. Coley arrives looking for Clint, and is distant with Portia. This chapter is all described from Portia's POV; we learn she's a freelance writer thinking about doing a story on Blood. We see the food, customs, and countryside, all lovingly described, through her city-fied (Newark, NJ) perspective: for example, she has a breakfast of eggs and fried fatback (described as "crisp and sweet") and her host Sid has "salt fish"--fish rolled in batter and fried in lard.
Ch. 13. Searching for his wife Louise, Sam Steiner discovers a very hungry Charlie in the bear cage and lets him out. Things don't go well.
Ch. 14. Not suspecting what's going on with Sam and Charlie, Clint takes Louise's body to her home and lays it out on the floor for Sam to take care of. Later, he "sits up" with the deceased Jared's body. Jared's grandfather and surrogate Pap, a mean drunk named Sweck Brewster, shows up and taunts Clint. Sweck swears that Jared won't turn, and if he does Duquieu will kill him. Clint tells Sweck to leave town.
- tom moody 4-26-2002 7:07 pm