Julilly and Liza continue their journey into the Appalachian mountains. They ration the food their Quaker helper gave them and eat wild berries. Using the compass for directions, they continue to travel by night and rest in caves in the mountainside during the day. Increasingly hungry and weak, the girls decide to use some of the money from the Quaker to try to buy food from a farm. When Julilly approaches a small farmhouse, the farmer points her gun at Julilly and threatens her. Julilly and Liza run away and find a cattle farm nearby. While discussing how they should approach the owners, they are startled by the farmer, a German Mennonite immigrant, who invites them into his home. Inside, a woman helps Julilly and Liza bathe and gives them clean clothes and food. She instructs the girls to go high into the mountains to avoid the slave hunters. The girls are stunned by the family’s kindness.

Liza and Julilly find the mountain paths frightening to travel at night. When a massive storm comes, the girls create a burrow shelter under a large rock and huddle under it.