"Where did this come from?" Mike asked, picking up the strange stone from the floor.
"I don't know," Mrs. Farber said. Really, though, she didn't care. What she wanted answered was how that boy Jon had gotten into her house and why he would make up a story about a horse trashing her basement. She began to regret her decision to let the kid off with only a warning. Breaking and entering, not to mention vandalism, were definitely crimes. What if the boy did it to someone else? She could have put a stop to his maliciousness right here and now, but she didn't.
Mike tried to think about why he came to the Farber house, but he drew a blank. Of course, with how many times he had gotten injuries out on the football field, it's any wonder that Moose didn't have permanent brain damage. "I wish ..."
