BROTHERS
"Is that you, Jake?"
Outraged pride and sullen submission combined in the utterance of the question. The room was in complete darkness.
"Yes, it's me," said Jake.
He went forward into the darkness, feeling out before him.
"Why don't you strike a match?" said Bunny.
Jake found the bed and stood beside it. "Going to behave yourself, my son?" he asked.
There was silence from the bed, a dogged, uncompromising silence.
Jake stooped. Feeling over the boy's body, he began to undo his bonds.
"Say, Bunny, I reckoned you were a bigger man than this," he said.