[Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link book
Penrod and Sam

CHAPTER VI
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They desired to keep Georgie at a distance, yet they could not refrain from posing before him.

They wished to impress upon him the fact that he was an outsider, and they but succeeded in rousing his desire to be an insider, a desire that soon became a determination.

For few were the days until he not only knew of the shack but had actually paid it a visit.

That was upon a morning when the other boys were in school, Georgie having found himself indisposed until about ten o'clock, when he was able to take nourishment and subsequently to interest himself in this rather private errand.
He climbed the Williams' alley fence, and, having made a modest investigation of the exterior of the shack, which was padlocked, retired without having disturbed anything except his own peace of mind.

His curiosity, merely piqued before, now became ravenous and painful.


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