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CHAPTER 12

 

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After breakfast, Bud leaves with Mr. Lewis for Grand Rapids. The first thing he notices when he gets in the car is that someone stole all the blood from the back seat. Mr. Lewis is amazed that Bud doesn’t remember anything after he fell asleep the night before. In the time before they arrived at the Sleet home, Lefty had delivered the blood to the hospital, gassed up, and got in touch with Herman Calloway. When Bud asks what his father had to say, Mr. Lewis tells him that he had sent a telegram from Western Union. When Bud reads the telegram, he can’t understand it at all, so Mr. Lewis explains how the words work and the meaning of the word stop.

Just as they drive past the sign that marks the boundary of Flint, a police siren sounds behind them. Lefty has Bud place the white box he had brought with him under his seat. Then, he tells him to listen very carefully and do what he says. This immediately makes Bud wonder if a man by the name of Lefty isn’t also on the lam. No mother would name her son Lefty so it must be an alias. Besides, Rule Number 8 says, “Whenever an adult tells you to listen carefully and talks to you in a real calm voice, do not listen. Run as fast as you.......

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This chapter is a reinforcement of the idea that when God closes one door, he always opens another. Bud has......

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