Book 3: Chapter 18, Enter the Bag Man Summary

Oly and Chick are helping Arty clean one evening when Chick mentions that a man has arrived to talk with Arty. He talked with Horst the Cat Man and asked after Mama and the twins. Chick doesn't like him, but he lets Arty know that the man wants to speak with him.

Arty invites him in his trailer, keeping Oly behind the security door with a gun. The man that enters is severely injured and missing half of his face, but Arty immediately addresses him as "Mr. Bogner" otherwise known as Vern Bogner, the man that shot the children when they were in the shopping center parking lot all those years ago. Vern, or the Bag Man, as he is now known, cannot speak, but instead writes to Arty.

The Bag Man tells...