"Come on!" the boy says. "Come with me." He beckons from the secret passage. Josh feels suddenly, strangely cold. "Maybe—maybe some other time," he says. Later, Josh gets the warning: "Never go beyond that door. That is his world. It's not for us." Josh is afraid, until he finds out why the boy still haunts the old crooked house, the house of the whistling whirligig.
"Come on!" the boy says. "Come with me." He beckons from the secret passage. Josh feels suddenly, strangely cold. "Maybe—maybe some other time," he says. Later, Josh gets the warning: "Never go beyond that door. That is his world. It's not for us." Josh is afraid, until he finds out why the boy still haunts the old crooked house, the house of the whistling whirligig.