Gangler

"I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler, "and we want it pretty blamed quick."

...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student...

...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery."

Everybody went: the spry, the shy, the podge, the gangler, the future electronic scientist, the future cop who would one night kick a diabetic to death...

Yet was it "down in the teen dump," as her cousin Eustace, an older gangler of like temperament, had called it, that she'd acquired a lifelong habit of feeling always more the observer than the observed?