The Alley by Eleanor Estes

Author:Eleanor Estes [Estes, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ages 8 and up
ISBN: 0152049177
Publisher: Odyssey/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

12. BULLY VARDEER AND THE BULLET-HEAD MAN

"Bite?" Bully Vardeer's low, drawling voice could plainly be heard in the Circle, where silence had fallen. "Does this dog bite? Princey? Eh, Princey? How about it? Do you bite? She's pretty friendly," he said to the man. "But..."

Though frozen with terror, Connie caught Billy's attention. She beckoned to him to sit down beside her—even though he was in the middle of proving the pretend bullet-head man, Ray Arp, guilty. "Billy," she said. "See that man talking to Bully Vardeer? Hear him? It is the bullet-head man, the real one, not the Ray Arp one."

Billy Maloon sank to the curbing and sat beside Connie. He was so tense, he was stiff. The rest of the children probably did not suspect that the real-life burglar, one of them, anyway, might be standing this very minute on the other side of the red brick Alley wall. It did not occur to them, probably, that if this new man were one of the burglars, he was talking to Bully Vardeer just to get the low-down on his dog, as he had on Wags on the day of de Gaulle. However, the children suspended their game—the trial—until the big people would go away, because they did not like an audience. They wrote things on the sidewalk, assumed blank expressions, and hoped for the speedy departure of both men.

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