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101 Chapter VI The trial at Juvenile Hall was a kangaroo court, It was my retrial, after being at Thorn Hill for two weeks; I sat there alone, for Tank had gone home, I had been in a fight with three boys assigned to be trustees, while at Thorn Hills A hearing had ‘been called, and I had been sent to appear in front of the board of administrat orss Solitary confinement had been thekt decision, with a statement to the court, that suggested my retrial be Heid’Por: the purpose of commiting me to Thorn Hill for eighteen months, It all came over me again, as I thought about Tank and the fur he might be having, How they had tried to trick me into telling on Tank, that night at the Mout Lebanon police stations 4 & what you are telling us is the truth? @ ne will really come in on his owny when he hears that you have been caught? @3)ton't you worry, We will’ find him ore way or anothers Because we know, We absolutely Imow, that another Saint Bernards boy was involveds “) you really believe what you are saying? mond Suet put his name in this envolope, and we won't open it until tomorrow afternoons Anyway, we have reason to believe that this other boy has been involved in other attempts at arson You have all kinds of reasons to believe anythinge What's that supposed to mean? You would say anything to get me to tell on him, You care more about me telling on him, than you do about finding hige He is a good friend of yourss Isn't he? Yes, I had said, going ice cold with my mistake, What makes him do things like this? Frost did you hear that question? I was silents What's a matter Frost? An intelligent boy like you can't anewer that question?