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Show 12 The boy did not move. "Do it," said the father. When the boy had written the note, the father put it in the box with the bear, wrapped the box in brown paper. "Write the address on it." "I said, write the address. Her name, and the address." The boy did so, but when he began to write the return address in the left-hand corner, the father put his hand over the space. "When you send messages to the enemy you don't tell them where you're sending them from," he said, "otherwise they'd find you." The next day when he went back to the basement the boy found, placed beside the blocks of wood he had sanded, a small hammer and some nails. He made a life raft. When he went upstairs at noon to fix himself some lunch, he took two candy bars from the kitchen and brought them to the basement. He put one just outside the old man's door, and then he went and sat in his place, eating the other one, but as long as he watched the candy bar stayed there. Late in the afternoon he heard the cats clawing after something in the back of the basement, and went to see what it was. When he came back the candy bar was gone, and he could hear the old man unwrapping it. The next day there was a can of gray paint and a brush in his place in the basement. The boy put an apple by the door, and after a few minutes he purposely took a walk to the back of the basement, to make the apple disappear. |
