Chapter Nine
Youth and Age Match Wits
Peewee never had known any room which anyone had called his, and he had never slept anywhere indoors except where numbers of other people were sleeping, or had anything of his own except those small objects which boys acquire and carry in their pockets. To be left alone in the room gave him a feeling of possession which he had never had before, even though he did not fully accept the assurance that it was his. But he would have been more interested in the room if he had not been so much interested in the old man.
If the old man was the only person besides servants in the house, and had power to give Peewee a room in it, it appeared evident that the old man owned the house. It seemed an immense house for one man. Its front windows
