CONSIDERATE 

          PART 18

But then the man stopped.  "Well, I suppose you'd better be going along,"

he said, "good night."

     "Good night," Jason returned.  "And thanks, I'll stop by one of these

days and say hello."  "You won't find us here," the man said simply.  He

is crazy!  Jason thought.  But he said, "You aren't going to do anything

funny to old Wynn after I'm gone, are you?"  The man shook his head.  "No,

don't worry."  Jason let in the clutch and stepped on the gas.  He wanted

to get out of there as quickly as possible.

     In little Abby Falls he went into an all-night lunch and telephoned

the police that an unconscious man was sitting in a truck three or four

miles back on the detour.  Then he drove home.

     Early the next morning, on his way to work, he drove back over the

detour.  He kept watching for the little house.  When it came in sight,

he recognized it easily from the contour of the rooms, the spacing of the

windows, and the little overhang above the door.

     But, as he came closer, he saw that it was deserted.  The windows were

out; the steps had fallen in.  The clapboards were gray and weather 

beaten, and naked rafters showed through holes in the roof.

     He stopped his truck and sat there besides the road for a little 

while, his face oddly pale.

1) WHAT WILL JOHN AND LILLIAN DO TO OLD WYNN WHEN JASON LEAVE?

READ PART 19 ON THE MUD PILE TOMORROW