THE FIGHT

Summary (Continued)

PART 9

Dana asks Nigel about it the next day, but Nigel says that Rufus sent him on an errand. She asks both Nigel and Rufus how long it takes a letter to get to Boston. Nigel has no idea and Rufus claims he doesn't know either. It bothers Dana to hear Rufus' answer, because she thinks it's such a small thing for him to do in order not to lose her good will.

From that moment on, Alice becomes an important part of Dana's work. In spite of Dana's fears of infection, Alice's body seems to be healing slowly, but cleanly. For a while, she calls Dana Mama and crawls, like a child, into bed with Rufus for comfort. However, as she becomes more and more well, she stops the childish names........

PART 10

Alice goes to the cookhouse for the first time on the day Carrie has her baby. She is functioning mentally at the of a twelve or thirteen year old girl. That morning, she tells Rufus that she wants to sleep in the attic with Dana, and surprisingly, he agrees. Aunt Sarah is forced to leave the cookhouse to tend to the birth, so Dana takes her place to make dinner for everyone. Alice sits at a table while Dana cooks and questions her as to what it's like to be a slave. Dana tells her she really doesn't know, because she was born free. Alice.......

PART 11

Carrie and Nigel have a little boy named Jude. Weylin gives Nigel a new dress for Carrie, a new blanket, and a new suit of clothes for himself. In the quarters, he shows his bitterness over the gifts since they just give Weylin one more slave for him to sell if he chooses. Weylin tells Rufus that he should have been the one to give Nigel the gifts, but that he wasted all his money on Alice, and now, he'll probably have to whip her sick again to get her to do what he wants.

Dana tells Rufus that she wants him to mail another letter to Kevin, because he should have received it by.......

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