Howard Pope, the oddball who’d arrived at school the year before, whom nobody much liked, was standing there looking dirty and slightly off-the-planet, as usual. “Hi, Howard,” she said. How did he even know where she lived? “Craze,” he replied with a sharp nod, no smile. “Can I come in?” Howard tended to call people by their surnames, which Ruth found kind of interesting. When she nodded, he pushed past her into the hallway. Ruth shut the door and they stood in the hallway looking uneasily at each other for a moment. “What is it?” Ruth asked bluntly, pointing at what he was holding. “A camera.” “Did you steal it?” “Yeah.” Howard frowned thoughtfully, looking past her down the hallway toward the kitchen. “But I’m not sure I got … everything,” he mumbled. “What do you mean, everything?” “Might need batteries and a cable. I don’t know.” “You want to check it out in here?” Ruth turned to open the door into the front room, but he didn’t follow.
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