“Thank who?” I asked. “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you.”
My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept toward me.
“He sneaked out of the house—turn ‘round—sneaked up, an’ went like this!”
Atticus said dryly,Do not let this inspire you to further glory, Jeremy.
Jem scowled, “I ain’t gonna do anything to him,” but I watched the spark of fresh adventure leave his eyes.
“Just think, Scout,” he said, “if you’d just turned around, you’da seen him.”
Calpurnia woke us at noon. Atticus had said we need not go to school that day, we’d learn nothing after no sleep.
Calpurnia said for us to try and clean up the front yard.
Miss Maudie’s sunhat was suspended in a thin layer of ice, like a fly in amber, and we had to dig under the dirt for her hedge-clippers.
We found her in her back yard, gazing at her frozen charred azaleas.
“We’re bringing back your things, Miss Maudie,” said Jem. “We’re awful sorry.”
Miss Maudie looked around, and the shadow of her old grin crossed her face.
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