It was about then when Sam began to have the dream. He would find himself looking back on his burning home, and he would see something move in a window. He drew cautiously closer to see what the movement might have been, and looks through the window to see a girl in her nightgown, facing away from him, brushing her hair before her mirror. He tried to open the window, but it was locked or jammed. Then he saw her stop brushing, as if she had heard him. She begins to turn slowly to her left, as if to bring her window into view, and Sam is stricken by panic, fearing that she might see him and identify him in his guilt, and he is frightened into the waking world. He bolts up in a sweat, and just as often as he does, he runs out onto the road and runs, and runs, and Huck jumps up out of his own slumber to run by Sam’s side.
He could never stay with the dream long enough to meet the girl’s eyes. He could never remain calm enough to continue.