After the children and Atticus return from the fire that consumes Miss Maudie's house, Atticus notices that Scout is wearing a blanket around her shoulders. When he inquires about its origin, Scout answers, "I don't know,sir...I--" She, then, turns to Jem, who is even more puzzled than she. But, Jem "babbles," and reveals the entire history of their doings at the Radley house including the placing of items in the hole of the Radley tree. Jem informs Atticus,
'Mr. Nathan put cement in that tree, Atticus, an' he did it to stop us finding things--he's crazy, I reckon, like they say....'
It is with this disclosure that Atticus changes his mind about returning the blanket to Boo, for he realizes that doing so may bring repercussions onto Boo as Mr. Radley would know that Boo has continued contact with the children, an act which he means to halt by already having stopped up the tree hole.
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