(Parts 12-14) Strange goings on at the Northern Star cooperative. Gil discovers a plan to steal power from the local electric utility to run a planned new bulkweigher, developed by Calvin Fogerson with at least tacit approval of Ole Torvaldsson, and persuades Ole to back off. Then he discovers a scheme used by Dottie Wilson to be alerted to visits from the state grain inspector. Later, Gil and some coop board members go fishing in Lake Okoboji and motor by board member Eddie Lofgren’s lake house and startle his wife, Helen, who flees inside.