This chapter opens with a description of a cat named Kitty, who has been adopted by an old woman named Ma, who is a member of the local police. Ma tells Kitty that she has brought her four younglings with her, and Kitty is amazed at the sight of the young people. She tells Ma that she is trying to pass along the lessons she has learned from the years to her younglings. The old woman tells the young men that the owner of the flower shop where Kitty was found called the police, and that she had received a report that a black cat had been found at the scene of the crime. The young men ask the old woman if she saw the cat at the crime scene, and she says that she saw it.