Meanwhile, Duchess is also trying to settle some debts against along the way, and he attacks their former warden and other people. They are aided by Sally, a family friend, and Ulysses, a black man they meet on the train. When Emmett declines, Duchess "borrows" Emmett's car, forcing Emmet and Billy to stowaway on a train to New York to find Duchess and Woolly and reclaim it. However, two guys (Duchess and Woolly) have snuck out from juvie and have followed Emmett home, hoping to convince him to help with a caper in New York to take back Woolly's $150K trust fund (which Woolly has been deemed "unfit" to access). Billy hopes to find their mother (who left them 8 years ago) there. The two-paragraph version: Emmett (18) has just gotten out of juvie and is now planning to drive down the Lincoln Highway to move to San Francisco with his younger brother Billy (8).
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