Summary

Chapter 6. An hour after the incident at Finsterwald’s house, a woman named Mrs. Pickwell steps outside her front door and blows a whistle through her pursed lips, to let her “small nation” of children, family, and friends know dinner is ready. After the group sits down at the ping-pong table to eat a spaghetti dinner, the children begin to ask who the new dinner guest is. As the children return to the dining room to get one more look at the guest, they notice he’s gone. They step out the back door and see Maniac, book in hand, running down the steel rails.

Chapter 7. Maniac’s next location is the Little League field where a baseball game has just ended. A burly 12-year-old pitcher by the name of John McNab is gloating that he has broken the little league record by striking out sixteen...