old friend Mamie, calls her "Jennie" and talks about how she was a debutante and came from a good family. After spending weeks waiting for the right opportunity, the couple practice the heist. Tim has studied the armored truck and knows its schedule: the stops it makes, how long the driver and "custodian" (the inside guard) take at each location, and when the truck is most vulnerable to robbery. He eventually steals the truck, killing the custodian, who had sat in back with the money. He takes off while the driver is inside the building and finds Virginia. He drives the truck inside a large trailer they have custom built for the job, using steel from his job. While she drives, towing the trailer, he counts the haul, $89,000. They reach Cripple Creek, a secluded place in the woods where they had previously stayed. They push the armored truck—with the custodian's body still inside—and its trailer into a nearly bottomless mineshaft to hide them. Tim reveals that his account is his confession, as he's writing it in his prison cell. He recounts that he and Virginia go to New Orleans where they meet Eddie Arceneaux and his sister, Loralee, a couple of young adults from a wealthy family. Tim finds that he and Virginia are becoming the snobbish, rich people types who are buying freely. He believes that Virginia is becoming too spoiled by their new wealth. Tim runs into former neighbors from his hometown who call him "Kenneth McLure". Eddie says that he is going to seduce Virginia and they will run away together. His sister Loralee tries to seduce Tim; when he returns to his room and finds it empty, he thinks Virginia has gone off with Eddie. Virginia returns alone and Tim forces her to leave New Orleans. They make their way to the Gulf of Mexico and end up in Tim's hometown of Masonville, Mississippi. After driving by the house of Nona Hickman, an old girlfriend, when they are stopped suddenly by a two police officers. They make a run for it, and start a police chase that ends in Virginia killing the first cop and Tim getting out of the car. She panics and drives off, leaving Tim with the second cop. Tim in defense, shoots and kills him and goes on the run. He is caught and badly beaten, burned with cigars, and thrown