Before a second attack, Will armed himself with dream power magic, vowing: "I am the Wizard Master," and he fended off the chair and destroyed it with greenish crackling electricity protruding from his fingertips...the chance came at last to Mother McTeague." By nightfall, a crowd has gathered in front of the saloon, where the dentist exhibits his art to an audience." A five-pointed star is nailed to a door - now the young boy George (Douglas Croft at age 13), who is the one hammering the gilt star to his own dressing room door, has become a cocky ""Peck""s Bad Boy"" - the precocious boy has learned his part way too well.He narrates with self-loathing how he must clean the interior of his cab after each shift, building up more ammunition in his own arsenal of repressed sexuality:Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat.