I'm not going to put the excerpt here because it's a couple pages long, but I'll sum it up. Mr. Dark is confronting Mr. Halloway in the parade looking for the boys. The boys are hidden close by, close enough to hear them. Mr. Dark is pretending that the boys are prizewinners and won free trips to the carnival, but Mr. Halloway's not stupid, so he pretends that he's never heard of a Will and Jim, or that they've moved to Milwaukee, or that the pictures (tattoos! Ew!) Mr. Dark showed him of the boys were of Milton Blumquist and Avery Johnson. Eventually, Mr. Dark leaves, not finding the boys hidden in the storm drain just below him.
I think this shows amazing courage on the part of poor Mr. Halloway. He knows full well that Mr. Dark can do terrible things to him if he doesn't comply, or if he finds him lying, but he still stands up for the hidden boys, even as Mr. Dark is torturing them via tattoo (again, eww!) Well done, Charles. Well done.
I LOVE this part too, I was going to write about it but you used it first. I really liked how he had all the tattoos though, I thought it was interesting and I liked the voodoo effect they had on the boys. But Charles Halloway (why is he always referred to by his full name?) was incredibly brave and a good actor there which is a plot twist compared to his character previously.
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