Annabelle tells her father how she thinks that Betty is in the well near Toby’s house. He and Jordan (Toby’s disguise) accompany her there. Betty is indeed in the well, where she has been impaled by a pipe. Toby, as Jordan, goes into the well and rescues her. The others heave the pair out with a rope. Annabelle’s father pronounces Toby/Jordan a hero and invites him home with them. 

Toby/Jordan comes to dinner at the McBrides’ house, and they praise him for his heroics. He does not remove his gloves, so as to disguise the distinctive scarred hands everyone would recognize as Toby’s. He tells them that he is Jordan, a carpenter from Maryland. During dinner, the family learn that Betty has tetanus, gangrene, and a torn-up shoulder. Even in from her hospital sickbed, Betty is spreading the rumor that Toby pushed her down the well after she threatened to tattle on him for throwing a rock in Ruth’s eye and setting the trip-wire for little James. Annabelle’s mother, Sarah, recognizes Toby and denounces him for lying about his identity. Toby declares that his real name is Tobias Jordan and that “I did not push Betty down that well” (214).