Summary

Chapter 3. The next day, Tex and company are hung-over and are awakened by Cole Collins banging on the door. Cole ends up blaming his boys’ drunkenness on Tex and Mason. He tells the group he does not want the brothers around his sons anymore. After this incident, Lem Peters, Mason’s old friend who got married in the city, informs the brothers he has just recently become a father of a baby boy. The three then sneak into the Collins’ house and share the news with them. Tex takes advantage of the opportunity to sneak into Jamie’s room, where her father almost catches him.

Chapter 4. Tex and Johnny are on the bus heading for school after Cole punished his son by taking the motorbike away for a week because of the drinking incident. Tex gets into trouble a lot, once setting an art project...