"Yeah." Joe nodded, turning to emphasize the point to Gimpy who had just come up behind him.
"I'm not asking you to be my friends," I said, "or have anything to do with me.
Just let me keep my job. Mr. Donner says it's up to you."
Gimpy glared at me and then shook his head in disgust. "You got a nerve," he shouted.
"You can go to hell!" Then he turned and limped off heavily.
And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did.
It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron.
I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.
I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.
Fanny Birden was the only one who didn't think I should be forced to leave,
and despite their pressure and threats, she had been the only one not to sign the petition.
"Which don't mean to say," she remarked, "that I don't think there's something mighty strange about you, Charlie.
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