Miss Scout, see if you can tell us what happened, while it’s still fresh in your mind. You think you can? Did you see him following you?”
I went to Atticus and felt his arms go around me. I buried my head in his lap.
We started home. I said Jem, I’ve forgot m’shoes. Soon’s we started back for ‘em the lights went out. Jem said I could get ’em tomorrow…
Scout, raise up so Mr. Tate can hear you,Atticus said. I crawled into his lap.
Then Jem said hush a minute. I thought he was thinkin’—he always wants you to hush so he can think—then he said he heard somethin’.
We thought it was Cecil.“Cecil?” “Cecil Jacobs. He scared us once tonight, an’ we thought it was him again. He had on a sheet.
They gave a quarter for the best costume, I don’t know who won it—” “Where were you when you thought it was Cecil?”
“Just a little piece from the schoolhouse. I yelled somethin’ at him—” “You yelled, what?”
“Cecil Jacobs is a big fat hen, I think. We didn’t hear nothin’—then Jem yelled hello or somethin’ loud enough to wake the dead—”
“Just a minute, Scout,” said Mr. Tate. “Mr. Finch, did you hear them?”
Atticus said he didn’t. He had the radio on. Aunt Alexandra had hers going in her bedroom.
He remembered because she told him to turn his down a bit so she could hear hers. Atticus smiled. “I always play a radio too loud.”
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