Part 1: Chapters 4, 5, and 6 Summary

The boys run through the center of town. It is Friday night, and the courthouse clock strikes nine. Between the time the clock bell starts ringing and the time it finishes, it seems to Will that the entire town pulls down the shades, turns off the lights, and locks up. The town is dead quiet after that.

They come upon a wooden Indian outside the cigar store. The storeowner greets the boys, but then freezes with his mouth open, listening to something far off in the distance. Will shivers and the boys run away and come to the barbershop. The barbershop owner begins crying while locking up for the night. He smells cotton candy, which brings back childhood memories. Nobody around town sells cotton candy anymore. As he moves to switch off the barber pole with the moving stripe...