美版的，有书的可以翻第5页第二段,特别是一些单词重点标出来的一定要翻到,中文版的这个翻译得不太全：
Weeds were not the only things Frank had to contend with either .
Boys from the village made a habit of throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House .
They rode their bicycles over the lawns Franks worked so hard to keep 【smooth】 .
Once or twice,they broke into the old house for a dare .
They knew that old Frank's 【devotion】 to the house and grounds 【amounted 】almost to an 【obsession】 ,and it 【amused】 them to see him limping across the garden ,【brandishing】 his stick and yelling 【croakily】 at them.Frank,for his part ,believed the boys 【tormented】 him because they ,like their parents and grandparents ,thought him a murderer.
So when Frank awoke one night in August and saw something very odd up at the old house , he 【merely】【 assumed】 that the boys had gone one step 【further】 in their 【attempts】 to punish him.