sentences:  She meets a native woman who becomes her friend, and while praying with her friends she and her friends are tied to the fence and held at gun point by thieves and Missie is forced to show one of the thieves where she put their money but Jeff finds out that Sonny has been a thief all along.Sonny is shot and later dies.That night Missie goes into labor and gives birth to a baby boy named Matthew (after Willie's brother).