CITR Ch. 8

In this chapter holden walks all the way to the train station from pency and catches a late night train to New York. While he is on the train he meets a mother of one of the other boys at Pency and she asks him why he is leaving and he tells her that he is having an operation. She also asks him who he is and he gives her the name of the janitor. He also tells her that he has a brain tumor and that that is why he had to have the operation.