Chapter One - Golden Boy
- For the song see: Golden Boy
Thomas Covenant is going to pay his bills at Bell Telephone Company passing the Electric Company as he does and recalls how his doctors taught him to carried out VSE. He remembers the song Golden Boy and is later given a note from a Beggar in dirty ochre robes who holds a staff atop of which it says 'Beware.'
- Characters
- Seen
- Beggar
- Thomas Covenant
- Mentioned
- Joan Macht Covenant
- Roger Covenant
- Places
- Seen
- Bell Telephone Company
- Courthouse
- Electric Company
- Mentioned
- Haven Farm
- Artifacts
- Mentioned
- Beggars Note