But anyway, she cried just the same, and hugged me awful tight just as if everything hadn't ended all right.

That's a funny thing about mothers.
So then I went to bed and I lay awake thinking about everything that happened.

What I thought about most was why Jake Holden hadn't come and told my mother and father like I heard him say he was going to do.

You remember how I heard him say that.

So that was a mystery--that's what Pee-wee would call it.