My son folded his questions and put them in his pocket.

“Okay,” he said quietly.

“That’s an answer.”

PART 10

The four boys did not sleep at the Holloway estate that night.

I had booked rooms at a small lodge near the training facility, and the weather crew confirmed that the roads between the estate and the lodge were passable for the shuttle.

We left shortly after nine.

Robert came to the front porch with a basket of cookies.