Chipping is astonished to be asked to "go abroad...it""s quite out of the question," and he resists.But he is cajoled o accompany his fellow teacher for his first summer vacation in Europe - at over 40 years of age.Before driving there for the final climactic showdown, Dr.Loomis solemnly told Tommy: "It""s his game, and I know where he wants to play it."In his office at the Sanitarium, Dr.Wynn told Loomis about the "pure, uncorrupted, ancient" power of evil, claiming he was at "the dawn of a new age" with Jamie""s baby - his group was presumably looking to sacrifice the baby, and then find a new avatar to spread their seeds of murder."Chapter II:Near the country estate of the Sanderson family is Bartlett Village.It is also the home of Squire Bartlett (Burr McIntosh), the richest farmer in the neighborhood.At the Bartlett farm, springtime is "awakening" - flowers and trees blossom, newborn birds in a nest crane their necks for food, baby chicks are wrapped in a blanket, cows graze, and the Bartletts sit in rocking chairs on the front lawn.Stone.Bound and gagged, Stone is taken on horseback to Khan""s mountain fortress as a hostage.Khan had also seized Barrett, blinded him, and killed him.McGregor is able to take captive one of Khan""s Afridi natives, coercing him to reveal where Stone is held (at Khan""s stronghold at Mogala), by using the same tactic of threatening the rebel with the sacrilege of being wrapped in a pigskin." As the Torrances are taken back inside into the giant Gold Room ballroom, Ullman describes he space which will soon be empty and devoid of any social influences:Ullman: We can accommodate up to three hundred people here very comfortably.