Chapters 32-34 Summary

Chapter 32

Dale reads from THE BOOK OF LAW that the Stele of Revealing was made by earth and air and can be destroyed by fire and water.

Jim Harlen procures two walkie-talkies, and the boys devise a plan to destroy the rendering truck. They siphon gallons of gas out of the underground tank at the Texaco. Dale and Lawrence will play the decoys, trying to lure the truck away from the Ashley-Montague house, where it is concealed in some brush, to the grain co-op, where the other boys will be waiting in ambush.

Chapter 33

Dale and Lawrence entice the rendering truck to chase them through town. They lure it to the grain co-op, where Mike, Kevin, and Jim are waiting on the roof with coke bottles filled with gasoline. The truck drives into the trap, and the boys pelt it with...