CHAPTER 20: Confessions

Summary

On Friday, Turtle Wexler skips school and goes with Flora Baumbach to the stock broker. When Westing stock reaches fifty-two dollars a share, the highest in fifteen years, Turtle tells Baba to sell. Meanwhile, Doug Hoo does not attend classes as he prepares for the track meet on Saturday by following Otis Amber again. He waits for Otis outside a rooming house but at least his feet doesn't hurt: when he went to see Doctor Jake Wexler about his blisters, he was directed to see his own father, who gave him paper innersoles that worked wonderfully. At five Otis bicycles back to Sunset Towers and Doug follows him. However, he does not know where Theo is. Theo is in the hospital emergency room as his "solution" experiment led to an explosion at the high school chemistry lab. The bomb squad detective questions Theo due to........

Notes

With the increasing popularity of James Hoo's innersoles, Jake Wexler's already waning interest in podiatry dims even further. In both cases, identity and occupation are tied together: James becomes happier as his true calling of inventor is validated by the happy feet of his customers; Jake's disillusionment with his own job is evident in his inability to help his.........

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