chapter 63

In Which Ajax Walks in the Front Door

Ajax walked in the front door.

“What’s that noise?” he said to no one. Ajax often asked himself questions out loud. In this case, he already knew the answer: It was the sound of his new Christmas copier—the one nobody was supposed to touch.

Ajax didn’t stop to take off his snowy coat and boots. He didn’t look left or right. He walked right past the big “HANK YOU” sprayed in gold on the green wall—right past Mrs. Maxwell sitting in a heap with her head between her knees. He was following the flying blue thank-you notes.