In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier

Author:Robert Cormier [Cormier, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-53252-7
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2013-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Part Three

Denny Colbert stood in the kitchen of the apartment in Barstow waiting for the telephone to ring again. He had answered the day before for only the second time in his life, and the echo of that strange intimate voice still lingered in his mind. He was also exhilarated by the mere fact of finally having answered the phone, amazed that he had waited so long.

He went to the window and looked out, parting the white lace curtains. The neighborhood to which they had moved four months ago was a mixture of apartment buildings, some old, some new, with small neat lawns out front and space for small vegetable or flower gardens in the backyards.

Nothing of interest in the street. A woman leading a procession of four small children, linked by a length of clothesline. There was only one tree on the entire street, a scraggly, pathetic maple whose leaves, even in September, had begun to shrivel and turn brown at the edges. He remembered the girl at the bus stop and what she had said about him and the trees. He wondered whether the girl would show up again. He should have been nicer to her. Should have been more civil.

A thump from the porch brought him to the kitchen door. The Barstow Patriot lay in a plastic wrap on the porch floor.

He held the newspaper in his hand but did not unfold it, thinking of another newspaper headline from long ago, a headline he had thought was buried forever in the past but jarred loose now and vivid in his memory:

GLOBE HORROR LINGERS AFTER 20 YEARS

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