Summary of Chapter 7 and 8 : The President's sentence is commuted, or reduced. He spends the next 12 years in C Block before drowning in a vat of dry cleaning solution. Eduard Delacroix arrives in late July. Mr. Jingles and Delacroix finally meet one another in The Mouse on the Mile, It's been a long time coming—the reader has known about their relationship since The Two Dead Girls, Chapter 2.