In chapter five of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife and flees from the barn on his way, as instructed by George, to "hide in the brush" in the clearing between the Gabilan Mountains and the Salinas River, which is the setting of the book's opening chapter. Candy enters the barn looking for Lennie because he has been "figuring some more" about Lennie's rabbits when he sees Curley's wife dead on the ground. After his discovery, he immediately gets George to show him the dead girl. The two men know automatically that it was most certainly Lennie who did it. George asks Candy to wait a few minutes before informing the other men on the ranch of the discovery. In the mean time, George is headed for the bunkhouse where he takes Carlson's gun. It was obviously in George's mind to kill Lennie with the gun. Later in the chapter, Carlson is indeed missing his gun. In the final chapter, George uses the Luger pistol to shoot Lennie in the back of the head.
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