KATY'S LAWS "Where would the Alley be without Katy's laws?" That's what Connie wondered all along. Now, while she and Billy were swinging, they heard Katy's voice, "Everybody come up to the Circle! Meece! We're going to play Meece." She was cruising up and down the Alley saying, "Come on ... Meece!" in her clipped, shrill voice. At Connie's gate she said, "Come on, Billy. We're about to begin." Billy did not say anything. "Come on, Connie," said Katy. "Come on," she said. "Join in." She did not wait for an answer. She expected everyone to come. And she had gone swinging up the Alley toward Hugsy's house to get him. You could hear her now from way down the other end of the Alley, near the gate, probably searching for Arnold, too. Before Katy moved to the Alley, it did not have any laws. Everybody in the Alley did what he or she wanted to do and did not think was he or wasn't he breaking one of Katy's laws. Now they had Katy's laws in the Alley, knew what side to ride their bikes on—what to do and not do.
