Despite being underer for a day, tified as t of young Oscar Love. t pulled back, t of t o look closely.    not been fe ing around terlogged corpse, maybe no one    anytragic act. o rest us left to te grief. But suspis    t transported to ty mue for a proper autopsy and i. t found only strange effects. to all out Oscar later told me about tropernal ans, t, ted lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, and brain of a deatenarian.

        trangeness and sorro of Jimmy Cummings. it of to t nig    returned.    s tal,    until t evening did Gee begin to    of us    Jimmy, desperate for any neo go back to t evening if t just as I sat doc be trying to reac my moto sit.

        "I dont like your friends calling in t; Mom picked up ts cradle oe of surprise, s. Suro finiso stare at t , turo she news.

        "Its a miracle. t was Oscar Love. Jimmy Cummings is okay, and ;

        My sisters stopped mid-bite, tared at o repeat tions of ences.

        "t of togettle Oscar Love."

        Elizabettered on te.

        "Youre kidding. Alive?" Mary said.

        "Far out," said Elizabeth.

        Distracted, Mom fretted    emples. Sood behinking.

        "Isnt ; I asked.

        "ell ... t be a mistake."

        "ts a ake, Mom," Mary said.

        Elizabet-so-rorical question . "So ;

        Mary asked ;ts so cool."

        My m at te of fried    abstra, reg rue    s o believe. too nervous to eat, I retired to templation. On my sed Camel, I ang veered off tailing to a stop. to t t out of to a ponytail, a pair of rose-classes perco a broad grin. Mary and Elizabeted    ook tairs in tood directly in front of me, expeg a heros wele. e shook hands.

        "ele back from t;

        "Man, you kno tell if oned or just .

        Mom burst til urned red. Not able to restrain t longer, my sisters joined in, nearly tag chem unpeel one by one.

        "tell us all about it," my mot;ould you like a drink? Let me get you aea."

        . Uo decide upon a sister, Jimmy slumped onto ttee, and t my post at turned, Mom sat beside Jimmy, beaming at him as if he were her own son.

        ";

        "Oers of grace defend us."

        "ts    ;As if ed out of    believe elling t to take to ttle Oscar    to be buried, tack, man, and Libby ouc are you?    you speak to me? And to , and s."

        tical beings, one dead, the child.

        "All tors and nurses freaked out, too. Speaking of nurses,     ot;

        t was no boy.

        "Learts s a times. And Oscar, big Oscar, came in a fees later, tine o see me, too. tions start flying, and of course I already told tory to t us to tal on at of    tell, t a ttle strung out, like ripping, and ty tired and dirty and ty."

        A big storm darkened in tern skies. In t, tures ed an underground    campsite, a maze of tu sered ther.

        "But you o kno in my ride and dr;

        ea in a single gulp, and my mot once. S of us, greory    to , s;So, tle Oscar?"

        "ell you t I sa ess ode nig so caug kid t I lost track of time. My copped dead around    seven.    because it must er nine. Not t I believe in gs or anyt, just t it ;

        I ccudied torm, trying to calculate its tempo. If one or t, to look for a cave or a ree to    out t.

        "So I . And at t point, Im ed about finding my o. I e to ts starlit and spooky. t ovals in a ring around t, rig;

        On fair summer nig above ground. e read t of foul    I es from tones in the river again.

        "t sticks from a campfire t some freakin ers or backpackers left, and if I o stay t in t be a good place since, obviously, someone ayed ize me, for ra dreams. ions. Bad acid. A voice from far atle boy calling and calling Mama, but I t see oo tired to get up. You ever    its really going off beside your bed? Only you ts just a dream, so you do up to s if off, t up t you    it ringing?"

        "I t dream every m," said Mary.

        "Dig it. I t see    I    tle Oscar g out for art looking for    me o find you. So arts calling out, Im under    see    ry to follos    tuff t someone s a trap. Im stru to my armpits in t    nearby. A bad se, man, a bad se."

        topped s about torm and trated on t it receded in talk.

        "I rapped up against t arent on ttom of t, but dangling t top of a bottomless pit. Or maybe somet ttom, going to get me."    at the girls, who screamed and giggled.

        "I stayed still, sidering my situation, Mrs. Day, and I s out to Little Oscar to be cool ting on my nerves. And I says, Im stu a    I    you as soon as I    figure out a o get out. And s a tunnel. So I tell o cra out?"

        In tao roll up t a sudden wrack of lighe song had slipped my mind again.

        "M es, so nou a    give myself a skos, all I o do is t and dourns out I    or ttom. But my feet are asleep, and my arms are aco take a leak—pardon my Frencired, but t boy—"

        e jumped at a loud boom of t t filled tricity and tto first fat drops las betable chairs.

        "At ttom of t; Jimmy tinued over t;tunnels in t dires. I sed doo unnels, man, unbelievably cool. Lord kno real skinny, like maybe kids made til you e to times big enoug. And at eaels. It just noo me t I saV e. Like ts a Vietnamese camp?"

        "Do you really t; I asked, "t tg    up camp in t;

        "No, man. Do you ts o go into tuo find t bad f not to get lost,    notice t first because of all t and grime—;

        " o ; Mom asked.

        tripped o make s    they were doing.

        "Mrs. Day, I    to do    up out of t ledges    notice t up ed, like climbing a ladder."

        I    tter part of a mont t picture tantly digging in the warren.

        "It e o tramp back till looking for us. So ting t to do , o ty blas lying tasore in t, dried-out musreasure."

        I looked out torm ed. hey gone?

        "As Im fixing up dinner, Oscar starts poking around trying to find a o open time pants like knickerbockers and a dingy er.    believe tuff ts out ts, mittens. e go around unc all ttons, a pou, and old cards and neuff ten on tig ring, a y scissors. t told to go up and iigate, because t    types around our to;

        "I s." My mother pursed her lips.

        Elizabet ;s ure?"

        "I didnt say anyt nature."

        " t; Jimmy tinued, "must    before I got tells me o be naked in a . tending to be pirates, kidnapped ied o a tree. Anot on a mask t looked exactly like o a ook off all ake off all ting kind of freaked out, but tet it all , puts a lid on tunnel."

        to go tried to remember    be.

        "All t for one girl, s , but it does explain a lot of t;

        "And t boy t; Mom said.

        "Maybe ts ;Maybe t boy kinda looked like s w ;

        Mary put for    everybody ;

        Mom    . "Sounds like to me."

        t I ker. I pressed my fore tried tet. to th.
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