“Instead of twenty-six letters. There are really fifty-two.”
Stanley looked at him, surprised. “I guess that's right. How'd you figure that out?” he asked.
Zero said nothing. “Did you add?” Zero said nothing. “Did you multiply?”
“That's just how many there are,” said Zero. Stanley raised and lowered one shoulder.
He didn't even know how Zero knew there were twenty-six in the first place. Did he count them as he recited them?
He had Zero write a few more upper- and lowercase A's, and then he moved on to a capital B. This was going to take a long time, he realized.
“You can teach me ten letters a day,” suggested Zero. “Five capitals and five smalls. After five days I'll know them all.”
“Except on the last day I'll have to do twelve. Six capitals and six smalls.”
Again Stanley stared at him, amazed that he was able to figure all that out.
Zero must have thought he was staring for a different reason, because he said, “I'll dig part of your hole every day.”
“I can dig for about an hour, then you can teach me for an hour.”
“And since I'm a faster digger anyway, our holes will get done about the same time. I won't have to wait for you.”
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