Chapter 4 Summary

Diane Sway, Mark and Ricky's mother, comes home and finds Ricky shaking and unable to talk. She calls the doctor. Mark arrives at the door with a policeman behind him. Mark tells his mother that he and Ricky found a dead man in the woods. The police officer and Diane check Ricky. The officer tells Diane that Ricky is in shock and calls an ambulance to take Ricky to the hospital.

In the ambulance, the officer asks Mark if he is lying, because his claims sound fishy. The officer wonders why Mark would not tell the police his name on the phone, and then why he would go back to the scene of the suicide, hide and watch. The officer tells Mark that he suspects that Mark and Ricky saw the whole thing. Mark asserts that he found Romey dead. The officer asks...