all would be fine by then. In three hours, they were on land, walking ahead of him, trying not to fall down in the crowd, feeling his hands urging them on, steering them wherever the signs told him to go, his voice telling them all the things they wanted to hear. A man with a badge gave them white cards to hang on their coats; their common code, Han-14, would get them together if lost; on to the end of the ramp where doctors worked in rooms with ceilings as far back as you could lean; a man just ahead had his card torn in half and chalk scrawled on his sleeve; they took him out a different door. They held hands outside and followed their father to the trains; once aboard, they felt sure of things and fell asleep, leaving him to watch the buildings give way to trees; by morning, they were there. VI. MRS. JAMES EDWARD HANLEY AND DAUGHTER A prayerful six weeks passed slowly in the house in upstate New York, but the time came to bring the rest of his women home; he would travel alone, leaving Liza in charge, and Mary and Kate would obey her as they would their mother, or he would know the why of it. The trip to Ward's Island was long, but he ran the gravel road to the hospital, stopping out of breath at the desk to be told the third floor office would have that sort of