THE MAN HIMSELF
‘Now?’ Rasper was probably the last person Sam wanted to see ever, let alone now. But before he knew it he was being marched back down Avenue A to Awkward Corner surrounded by Rory and three huge Rasperites with stoney faces. He was shaking. Perhaps there had been a spy at the meeting after all. And perhaps Rasper knew what they were really planning for the Sports Events. Sam with visions of the Town Hall basement racing through his mind, looked ahead to the great oak trees on the Green. Was this the last time he was ever going to see them?
He was pushed roughly into the Peoples’ Cafe. It was very different to what it had been the last time he’d seen it with Miriam. All the chairs and tables were gone and it could hardly be called a cafe anymore at all, it was more like a
