<P> The man in the yellow suit then further angers the Tucks when he tells them that he plans to gather the water from the spring and sell it to the public . When they angrily refuse his offer to be partners in the venture because they desire privacy over the money, he then declares he does not need their permission to sell the water and begins to take Winnie away . He tells the Tucks that if they will not be his examples, then she will . He says that a child would be a better example, and there is nothing they can do to stop him . Mae, in a last - ditch effort to put an end to the confrontation, grabs her husband's shotgun by the barrel and threatens the man in the yellow suit with it . The man in the yellow suit tries to escape, while Miles tries to stop his mother from attacking the man . Just as the constable rides up to the farm, Mae whips the gun around so hard that its stock strikes the man in the yellow suit in the back of the head, with enough force to fracture his skull on impact . Mae is arrested while the man in the yellow suit is carried inside the farm house, and when the blow later proves fatal she is condemned to the gallows and scheduled for execution the next morning . </P> <P> Angus, Miles, and Jesse realize that their secret will be revealed once Mae is hanged, due to the fact that people will understand the secret when Mae does not die from the hanging, so they take Winnie with them and go to the jail and spring her from her cell . Then Winnie takes her place so the Tucks can safely get away . Although they are reunited, there is no more reason for them to be in Treegap, as Mae is now a fugitive from justice . Before departing, Jesse gives Winnie a bottle of the special water so she might drink it when she turns 17 and follow them and marry him . She gives it consideration but decides not to and pours it onto a toad, because she thinks that if she changes her mind then she can go to the spring to get more . </P> <P> Many years later, Mae and Angus return to Treegap and find that it has changed a great deal--the wooded area is gone and so is their spring; the town has become a typical suburban metropolis . While there, they happen to visit a cemetery where they discover what happened to Winnie: she went on to marry, and had died two years before in 1948 . Though Angus Tuck is saddened by this, he also praises Winnie for choosing not to drink the water . They come across a toad near her grave but they are unaware that it is the same one that she had poured water on years before . </P> <Ul> <Li> Winnie Foster--The novel's protagonist, she is 10 years old when the novel begins and lives in Treegap, New Hampshire . Her Father is the richest man in Treegap . During the story, she falls in love with Jesse Tuck . </Li> <Li> Angus Tuck--The father of the Tuck children, he dislikes his immortality and dreams of dying and going to heaven . </Li> <Li> Mae Tuck--Described as a "great potato of a woman with a round, sensible face and calm brown eyes," Mae is the mother of the Tuck children and is married to Angus . She is happy with her lifestyle wearing old clothes and living in a messy house . She owns a music box that she carries around with her . She considers it to be "the prettiest thing she owns". </Li> <Li> Jesse Tuck--The youngest in his family, Jesse is 104 years old but physically appears to be seventeen . By the end of the story, he has fallen in love with and wants to marry Winnie . </Li> <Li> Miles Tuck--Appearing to be 22 years old, Miles is the older brother of Jesse and the son of Angus and Mae . He is trained as a carpenter and blacksmith . His wife divorced him because she believed that he must have sold his soul to the devil to have maintained his youthful appearance after they had been married for almost 20 years . </Li> <Li> The man in the yellow suit--The novel's antagonist, he is tall and graceful and pursues the Tuck family for years after hearing rumors of their secret life . </Li> </Ul>

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