Jesse James Chapters 11-13

Chapter 11: The James family basically killed all of their own except for family to help themselves. They found some sort of blood. I also think this chapter is kind of confusing and not really sure what is going on through this. The narrator reaches Bob Younger and desperately wants the information about the child. "I will be brief in summing up the results of the raid. The three Youngers eventually recovered from their wounds, were tried, convicted, and sentenced to the Minnesota State prison for life. The Hites managed to get out of the country. Their usual luck attended the two Jameses in their flight. Brothers in crime as in blood, they clung together with a tenacity worthy of a better cause, Jesse, the younger and abler, aiding his wounded brother, and piloting the way through their long and arduous journey in search of the rest and liberty that neither of them deserved. Frank recovered from his wound." They almost all lived through this which I have no idea how that happened. As the narrator tries to tell people that Tip is still alive, he says that he is the one that will bring back the missing child..some may believe him and others do not.

Chapter 12: Mattie visited the narrator and told him about the Younger girls. "It's just this, that you're the only man that knows of its being in existence, so far as I am concerned. And then, again, no other detective'll ever be any wiser through me. Then, again, not one of the gang themselves outside of Jess James and perhaps, Frank James, knows as much about that treasure secret as you do at this day, through those dying words of Ed Miller, whose curiosity lost him his life. As for me, I wash my hands of the whole thing, the Lord be thanked, with your permission. You're the sole outsider possessin' henceforth a clew to Jess James' buried heap -- the sole, single, only possessor of poor Ed Miller's directions -- for what they're worth -- and if any one ever unearths it in the future, with Jess James alive or dead, you ought to be the man. There's an awful pile of lucre hidden away somewhere in the old crust. May you live to get it." I feel that this quote sums up the path where the narrator needs to go. This journey was meant for him. I didn't like it when they changed the style of writing for the narrator because I could barely understand what the words meant when it was changed I guess to country style. He now knows when and where Jesse will go to get his child.

Chapter 13: The narrator finally finds Jesse and Tip for the first time. He grabs the child and changes back to his real voice revealing who he really is. "It means just this!" cried I, in my natural voice, "Judge Rideau wants this grandchild of his, and my search for him, though a long and perilous one, is ended at last. Jesse James, throw up your hands and crawl out of that saddle, or I'll cheat the hangman of his due!" The bad boy Jesse James was afraid of this fight for wearing armor under his clothes although it was a smart move. The narrator however injures him by shooting his wrist to let go of Tip. In the end, the narrator rescued the child, Tip from the outlaw Jesse James.