 One night Dill runs away from his home in Meridian, arriving in Maycomb County where he hides under Scout's bed.When she finds Dill, he tells both Scout and Atticus that he was chained to a wall in his father's basement; later, he confesses he actually ran away because he felt he was being replaced by his stepfather.Before Dill returned to Meridian after the summer, he went swimming with Jem at the Barker's Eddy creek.