And even if they did find refuge on Big Thumb, he thought, they’d still have to come back here, eventually.
Then they’d both have to face the Warden, and her rattlesnake fingers.
Instead, he came up with a better idea, although he didn’t have it quite all figured out yet.
He thought that maybe he could make a deal with the Warden. He’d tell her where he really found the gold tube if she wouldn’t scratch Zero.
He wasn’t sure how he’d make this deal without getting himself in deeper trouble.
She might just say, “Tell me where you found it or I’ll scratch you, too.”
Plus, it would mean X-Ray would get in trouble, too. She’d probably scratch him up as well.
X-Ray would be out to get him for the next sixteen months.
He dug his shovel into the dirt. By the next morning, Zero still hadn’t returned.
Stanley saw one of the counselors sitting guard by the water spigot outside the shower wall.
Mr. Pendanski had two black eyes and a bandage over his nose.
“I always knew he was stupid,” Stanley heard him say.
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