![]() ![]() Fields is especially impressed by Hiram’s skills, and soon after starts tutoring Hiram in reading and math. Soon, Howell throws a party, during which Hiram is made to entertain the guests by showing off his supernaturally good memory. Hiram is told that he is being brought to work in the house, and Thena warns him not to forget that the white people aren’t his family. Hiram’s father is the master of Lockless, Howell Walker. After John’s death, their children were sold. However, Thena takes him in, and a year and a half after Hiram moves in with her, she tells him about her husband, Big John, who died of a fever. Now, Hiram walks down the Street (the part of Lockless plantation where the enslaved people live) to the cabin that belongs to Thena, a woman with a reputation for being mean. The one person he cannot remember is Rose, who was sold. ![]() ![]() He explains that he has an extraordinary power of memory. ![]() The narrative jumps back in time to when Hiram is a child. Maynard can’t swim and calls out Hiram for help. The vision makes Hiram accidentally drive the carriage off the road, sending him and his half-brother and master Maynard into the water. Driving a carriage by the River Goose, Hiram has a vision of his mother, Rose, water dancing. ![]()
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