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‘I ed Running hohts around us and none of theone out I saw some policemen in the distance, down the street, and they hadn’t been stopped I kept waiting for all the lights to go out or so But instead it looks as if soht have been hurt I mean, when you think about Will and Bo and the others, kinda lionna sleep tonight and osh, they’re gonna lie around, doing nothin’, staying in bed, keeping quiet, and here I am for the first time in years, wide awake I can’t even shut ? Iwe had to kill the clock, but hoe ain, if we have to?’

‘The clock wasn’t alive,’ said Doug softly

‘But you said,’ said To that we had to do it in, so we did, but what now? It looks like we’ll all be in trouble now,’ Tom finished

‘Only –to’

‘But ent along, Doug It ell We liked it We had fun But now, if the clock was never alive, hoe bring it back froot to be done What’s next?’

‘Maybe I’ve got to go down to the courthouse and sign soive theht or ten years, so they can fix that clock’

‘Oh!’

‘That’s about the size of it,’ said Doug, ‘when you want to revive a big thing like that Eight or ten years But what the heck, I guess I deserve it So o down and turn myself in’

‘I’ll go with you, Doug’

‘No, sir,’ said Doug

‘Yes, I will You’re not going anywhere without old Tom’

‘To to say to you’

‘What?’

‘I’er brother’

Doug turned, his face flushed, and started to walk out of the room