I Found Two Babies in a Cardboard Box on Route 66—Then Their Missing Mother’s Warning Named the Man Asking to Take Them Home

“I saw something beside it.

I didn’t understand what it was.”

“Did you take a photograph?”

Her eyes moved toward her purse.

“I did.”

I waited while she reached inside.

Her fingers found the phone, but she kept it in the bag for another moment.

“I didn’t know whether I should interfere.”