C79 The Ice-sugar Gourds

Yates didn't have a superior, so he naturally couldn't take a leave of absence, nor could he explain to everyone who came looking for him that "I'm in a parent-teacher conference." Doyle and a group of other students peeked at the back door of the classroom for a long time. When they saw Yates, the big guy, sitting incongruously behind the little desk of a junior high school student