Chapter 4

THE PARK WAS ABOUT two blocks square, with a fountain in the middle and a small swimming

pool

for the little kids. The pool was empty now in the fall, but the fountain was going merrily. Tall elm

trees

made the park shadowy and dark, and it would have been a good hangout, but we preferred our

vacant lot,

and the Shepard outfit liked the alleys down by the tracks, so the park was left to lovers and little

kids.