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One Came Home Chapter 12 Summary

  • Billy and Georgie ride out of Dog Hollow to the site where Sheriff McCabe found the body.
  • Georgie is upset because there's nothing remarkable about the spot—it's just somewhere on the side of the road.
  • Georgie has a total breakdown when Billy removes his hat out of respect; she runs away from him, up the side of a hill.
  • She sees a pile of rocks and thinks Agatha must have left a clue there, so she pulls the rock pile apart, getting covered with bugs in the process, but there's nothing there.
  • Georgie rests on the bluff, thinking about everything that has happened, considering all the evidence for and against Agatha's death.
  • She concludes that Agatha probably is dead and has herself a good wrenching, screaming fit.
  • When she returns to Billy, he's still standing in the road where she left him, acting like everything's cool.
  • They decide to thoroughly investigate the crime scene, just to make sure they haven't missed anything.