ON THE GREEN AGAIN
The crowd began to assemble on the Green. Around the edge stood Bill Rory and a whole gang from Awkward Corner. They were all intently watching the crowd, as if they were looking out for anyone who might disagree with them or Rasper. And what was worse, the Chief of Police seemed to be asking his men to do the same thing. Detective Willis, who’d recovered from what he’d called his underpant mortification outside the hospital by cringing and crawling to Henry Horne was already writing a name in his notebook to prove that he was a true Rasperite.
“Rasperite! They call themselves Rasperite? What kind of name is that? It sounds so...so...stupid!” Miriam was standing on the Green with Sam as the crowd packed in around them.
“It’s so they can all crawl to him,” said Sam as
