- We skip right over Susan Heine's actual testimony for the prosecution (which presumably contained a lot of the details from the previous chapter—maybe not the sexy stuff, though) and rejoin her in the courtroom being questioned by Nels Gudmundsson.
- Before we jump into her testimony, however, we get some details about Nels himself, his problems with age and sexual dysfunction, and his late wife.
- Then, we get the actual testimony. Nels gets Susan Heine to admit that Carl had not outright refused Kabuo and, in fact, had given him some reason to hope that he'd sell him the seven acres (once he'd actually officially purchased it from Ole).
- Also, Nels manages to make a larger point about all the hearsay that had been admitted as evidence in the trial (he thinks it's shady).
- Then, the power goes out due to a fallen tree on a power line.