“The sight of the black box stunned the gathering into a silence more deep than before. Only members of The Vigils and their victims had seen it. In the garish stadium light, the box was revealed as worn and threadbare, a small wooden container that might have been a discarded jewelry box. And yet it was a legend in the school.”

—  Robert Cormier , book The Chocolate War

Source: The Chocolate War (1974), p. 245

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