{"id":"01KG6FVG02Q09J805C01C0TQ3P","cid":"bafkreihwz4lzqms4j5i4vfe565vvd6bajswi3tne3bxveo4xrs2jxe7oo4","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5240,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:20.747Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 8","source_file":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","start_line":5184,"text":"more if she went away with me.\n\"Come on,\" I said. I started up the steps to the museum again. I figured what I'd\ndo was, I'd check the crazy suitcase she'd brought in the checkroom, andy then she could\nget it again at three o'clock, after school. I knew she couldn't take it back to school with\nher. \"Come on, now,\" I said.\nShe didn't go up the steps with me, though. She wouldn't come with me. I went up\nanyway, though, and brought the bag in the checkroom and checked it, and then I came\ndown again. She was still standing there on the sidewalk, but she turned her back on me\nwhen I came up to her. She can do that. She can turn her back on you when she feels like\nit. \"I'm not going away anywhere. I changed my mind. So stop crying, and shut up,\" I\nsaid. The funny part was, she wasn't even crying when I said that. I said it anyway,\nthough, \"C'mon, now. I'll walk you back to school. C'mon, now. You'll be late.\"\nShe wouldn't answer me or anything. I sort of tried to get hold of her old hand, but\nshe wouldn't let me. She kept turning around on me.\n\"Didja have your lunch? Ya had your lunch yet?\" I asked her.\nShe wouldn't answer me. All she did was, she took off my red hunting hat--the\none I gave her--and practically chucked it right in my face. Then she turned her back on\nme again. It nearly killed me, but I didn't say anything. I just picked it up and stuck it in\nmy coat pocket.\n\"Come on, hey. I'll walk you back to school,\" I said.\n\n<!-- [Page 112](arke:01KG6FJ3DHKGCZHZMATY8CCQT3) -->\n\"I'm not going back to school.\"\nI didn't know what to say when she said that. I just stood there for a couple of\nminutes.\n\"You have to go back to school. You want to be in that play, don't you? You want\nto be Benedict Arnold, don't you?\"\n\"No.\"\n\"Sure you do. Certainly you do. C'mon, now, let's go,\" I said. \"In the first place,\nI'm not going away anywhere, I told you. I'm going home. I'm going home as soon as you\ngo back to school. First I'm gonna go down to the station and get my bags, and then I'm\ngonna go straight--\"\n\"I said I'm not going back to school. You can do what you want to do, but I'm not\ngoing back to chool,\" she said. \"So shut up.\" It was the first time she ever told me to shut\nup. It sounded terrible. God, it sounded terrible. It sounded worse than swearing. She still\nwouldn't look at me either, and every time I sort of put my hand on her shoulder or\nsomething, she wouldn't let me.\n\"Listen, do you want to go for a walk?\" I asked her. \"Do you want to take a walk\ndown to the zoo? If I let you not go back to school this afternoon and go for walk, will\nyou cut out this crazy stuff?\"\nShe wouldn't answer me, so I said it over again. \"If I let you skip school this\nafternoon and go for a little walk, will you cut out the crazy stuff? Will you go back to\nschool tomorrow like a good girl?\"\n\"I may and I may not,\" she said. Then she ran right the hell across the street,\nwithout even looking to see if any cars were coming. She's a madman sometimes.\nI didn't follow her, though. I knew she'd follow me, so I started walking\ndowntown toward the zoo, on the park side of the street, and she started walking\ndowntown on the other goddam side of the street, She wouldn't look over at me at all, but\nI could tell she was probably watching me out of the corner of her crazy eye to see where\nI was going and all. Anyway, we kept walking that way all the way to the zoo. The only\nthing that bothered me was when a double-decker bus came along because then I couldn't\nsee across the street and I couldn't see where the hell she was. But when we got to the\nzoo, I yelled over to her, \"Phoebe! I'm going in the zoo! C'mon, now!\" She wouldn't look\nat me, but I could tell she heard me, and when I started down the steps to the zoo I turned\naround and saw she was crossing the street and following me and all.\nThere weren't too many people in the zoo because it was sort of a lousy day, but\nthere were a few around the sea lions' swimming pool and all. I started to go by but old","title":"Chunk 8"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG6FV1MXSJGSEB5SJM280689","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG6FT59BXAZ3C5HRJ6SW8F58","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFF1K6A8V452X8SQKY55DD16","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG6FVF9GX5ATM3X17ZJBMK0R","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG6FVG023KKRCJ2WAS8AYX6B","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T03:41:22.306Z","ts":"2026-01-30T03:41:32.928Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}