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Show The Speed of Light Butch and Fenn Stories 10 "Well, that's just light. That's not the sun. The sun has gone down! It takes the light a while to get here!" "How long?" "That's what we are going to find out after dark." "Isn't it in a book?" "A book!" Butch says. "A book!" He starts climbing down and stops with his head looking up at us through the hole in the bandstand roof. "This is the world, Fenn! what do we need a book for?" "Where do we meet Parley?" "The Wilkes' place." Carol Wilkes was in Miss Talbot's class with us last year. In the alley it is more dark than light. We can see into all the kitchen windows along the way; everybody's eating dinner in the yellow light. At the Wilkes', Butch has to grab Fenn's shirt to keep him from walking right up the front porch. "The garage!" he whispers and he leads us back across the field, through the pit where we used to play army, over the trenches we had dug and the underground hut which had collapsed on his brother, out to the shed. "Now, be quiet!" Butch arranges the two wheelbarrows under the window so he can step up and peer through the window. "What do you see?" "Shhhhh!" |
