"Put me down!" A.P. wheezed as the nurse made another grab for him. "Both of you!"
The telephone rang sharply, and the young man ran to it.
"You be quiet!" Ginny told A.P. sternly. "Don't talk back to your mother!"
"That's right!" Lester said, striding forward. "Or your father, either!"
"I'll report you!" A.P. yelled. "I'll tell the authorities!"
The nurse pulled at A.P. violently. "Give him to me!" she cried.
"Put me down this instant!" A.P. insisted. "I demand it!"
Lester shook a finger under the nurse's nose. "You let go of him!" he thundered. He took hold of A.P.'s chubby leg. "He's ours!"
The young man darted forward frantically with the phone. "It's Evans of Tantamount Publications!" he yelled above the uproar. He grasped A.P.'s head and jammed it next to the receiver. "He's ready to close the deal!"
"Put me down!" A.P. shrilled into the phone. "Let go of me, all of you!"