- Mr. Hook and Polly Ann leave so that Tom and Birdy can get back to work. As they drive off, Birdy notes that Mr. Hook and Polly Ann seem to be getting along very well.
- Yeah, we noticed.
- They load timbers in Birdy's wagon, and he starts off for the Dolans'. Tom stays behind to load his own wagon with boards left from the siding.
- While Tom is working, he thinks over Polly Ann's story about Mr. Breen going into the barn at night with a pinch. He realizes that the hook was positioned to keep people from coming inside the barn while Mr. Breen was in there, and that pinch bar could be used to pry up a board.
- Eureka! Mr. Breen must have hidden his money in the barn floor.
- Tom wants to look for it right away, but knows he shouldn't. Parker Munsey walks up while he is thinking about the money. Good thing Tom wasn't poking around the floorboards.
- When Munsey asks what he is thinking, he lies easily, saying he's thinking about how he wants a cement floor instead of a timber one in his new barn.
- Munsey wants to know when Tom will finish taking up the barn floor and when he will tear down the house. Tom, somewhat sassily, says he and Birdy will do it after they've built the foundation for his barn and gotten the frame up and roofed.
- You tell that city slicker, Tom.