In this chapter, the narrator tells the story of how he came to be in the same bar as Huck Finn three years earlier. He tells Huck that he has seen many crime scenes, but none like the one he saw at the slaughterhouse. Huck is a hero, he says, because he has done the right thing, and now he has to do the wrong thing again. Huck asks his father what is wrong, and his father tells him that he is weak, and that his weakness is deadly. Huck tells his father that he saw celestine with a man the night before, and he feels an urge to find out what happened to her. The doctor tells the narrator that she was abused by her parents, who never forgave her for her abilities. Huck says he is starting his search for her at the Eastgate Memorial Hospital, where he saw her in a newspaper story three years ago