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In the morning, the man with blue fingers (Doc Parker) has disappeared, but Silas is just glad to know that he didn’t kill him. Parker gets recognized and captured a few days later due to his fingers, which have been stained by photography chemicals.
Ollerenshaw claims that he can bribe any judge and threatens to harm Chalfont and Beautyman when he gets out of jail, but the police think that he will be in prison for life. Ollerenshaw tries to bribe them again, but it doesn’t work. However, the police let the Morton brothers go free, hoping that they will be too scared to return to a life of crime. Pa is buried.
When Ollerenshaw threatens the officers again, they gag him. As they travel back toward town, Ollerenshaw constantly glares at Silas in a way that scares him, which Silas thinks is unusually cruel. Silas begins to cry, and Mittenwool allows Ollerenshaw to hear his voice but not to see him. He tells Ollerenshaw to leave Silas alone and then repeatedly calls him a murderer. Ollerenshaw looks around. Seeing nobody, he becomes distraught. Mittenwool tells Ollerenshaw that if he ever goes near Silas again, he will be perpetually haunted by all the people he murdered.
By R. J. Palacio
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