CHAPTER NINE
IT WAS PARTY NIGHT AGAIN.
Mona had been worried about Frank all week long, ever since the day she found out that he had blurted out all those things in Old Man Danton's class.
She knew about Joel Hankins, too, though Frank hadn't been the one to tell her. It was Joel himself who, the day before yesterday had called to thank Frank for sending a check for double his hospital bill. She hadn't known about any check-Frank had never mentioned one. And so she asked Joel what had happened, and he had told her, more ashamed of his remarks to Frank than angered because of the consequences.
So she was worried about Frank for those reasons. And she was also worried about Frank because Sue Ellen Bland was not one to play coy and modest unless she hadn't earned it yet.
There was a new
