Chapter 10

I WALKED DOWN THE hall in a daze. Dally had taken the car and I started the long walk home

in a

stupor. Johnny was dead. But he wasn't. That still body back in the hospital wasn't Johnny.

Johnny was

somewhere else--- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley,

or sitting on

the back steps of the church in Windrixville.