"You started to say something else."
He kicked at the floor. "Aw, gee!"
"Let's have it!"
"We smoked."
"Smoked!"
He nodded.
"And what else?"
"That's all. Honest!"
Thompson said, "What about shoplifting?"
"No," sniveled Tommy. "That was Ashe. He wanted me to talk the gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't. Then he changed himself to look like me and talked the fellows into it when I wasn't around. I only know about it because I ran into them after they'd been in a store...."