In the beginning of this Chapter Irene and her friends are discussing what they should do about Ida being pregnant. All of the Jews vote that they should not let her have the baby, but Irene tells them to wait until she can think of a better plan. Another thing that happens in this Chapter is that Schulz gets tarpaper to cover the windows of the kitchen. After covering all the windows there is still one roll left over and Irene knows that this is the thing she can use as a roof for her other friends in the forest. She asks Schulz if she can take home the last roll and he agrees to let her have it. Another unpleasant surprise happens to Irene in this Chapter, when she tells the major she is going to give the tarpaper to her "cousins" in the woods. The major immediately smiles and says he bought a sleigh so that he can take her to her "cousins" house. Now Irene is faced with two issues. 1. She now won't be able to deliver the tarpaper to the real people she wanted to deliver it to and 2. Irene has to hope that the family she always goes to visit will catch on to the fact that they are supposed to be cousins. To Irene's luck when she and the major get to her "cousins" house the kind family catches on to her lie. They easily pretend they are relatives and everything goes smoothly. When the major and Irene leave Irene promises she will be back soon. Over the next few days the snow melts and Irene is able to visit them again. She finally decides to tell them what she is really doing with the tarpaper-helping the Jews in the forest build a roof. They understand and tell her that they had a feeling all along. They then tell Irene that she can trust them. Irene is glad that she has true friends. That day when Irene is going home she stops by the woods and delivers the tarpaper to her friends for their roof. She is about to leave when she discovers one of the women who lives in the woods, Miriam, is sick. She decides that she will take her to the basement to live with her other Jewish friends. There, she can be warm, safe, and hopefully be able to heal. Now she can only hope that she and Miriam will make it home without being spotted by the major.
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