Chapter 26 Summary

In Chapter 26, to remain unseen, Luke climbs out the window of the room to escape. Luke convinces himself that Oscar only took Aldous Krakenaur to the unlocked room to get information out of Aldous. When Luke retraces his steps back to the secret room, however, someone is there blocking the way. The man tells Luke that they found some harmful chemicals that the police left behind and that they're trying to clean it up now.

Chapter 26 Analysis

Luke sees that the man is lying. The man then uses food as a ploy to direct Luke toward the kitchen and away from the secret room. When Luke replays the conversation between Aldous and Oscar, Luke realizes that Aldous still has power over Oscar because Aldous still has secret information that Oscar wants. Again, Oscar is portraying to the public that he is in power...