Dad is a retired patrol (巡逻) officer. In his precinct (警区) lived an infamous family, which consisted of a1single mother and her four sons.
The three older sons were all2in crime. Many of the patrol officers knew the mom and3she knew them.
She was always very4when questioned about her sons' whercabouts (行踪). On one visit, my dad5a conversation. During their talk, she expressed her6in regard to her youngest boy. She felt powerless in7him to the straight and narrow. But the environment would not allow it.
My dad agreed to offer the only8he could think of on the spot. He asked the con-cerned mother if she would allow her youngest boy to spend the summer at our house. It would be9for the boy to see another side of family life which he had never been10to.
Although we must have seemed very unfamiliar to him, he had no trouble11. The whole neighborhood welcomed him and he loved the12. At the end of summer, he re-turned to his mother.
I13about him several years later. Dad told me that after going back, the youngest son decided to go to night school for accounting. He eventually14an office job. He was the only son in that family who did not become a(n)15.
