“Want to try it?” Chips caught him up.
Red let the challenge pass. The boys found a grassy site at the rear of the building, and spread out their sandwiches.
Dan discovered that his Mother had packed extra fruit and cookies, so he shared them with Chub who had brought only a peanut butter sandwich and an apple.
Red, a fast eater, finished ahead of the others and restlessly began to wander about. Soon he was peering into the dusty basement windows of the church.
“What do you see?” Dan inquired curiously.
“Not much of anything ’cept an old furnace.”
“Any sign of those ice cream freezers?”
“I can see some cooking junk on one of the shelves. Don’t know if it’s a freezer or not—”
Their interest whetted, the other boys gathered up the loose picnic papers and went to join Red. From another window on the opposite side of the building, Dan obtained a much better view of the cluttered basement interior.
“I do see a freezer!” he reported gleefully. “I’m sure of it!”