The maid reported that the room hadn't been touched since she had made it up the day before."Now I was worried. What had happened to her? I began to s...spect it might be something bad."Can you tell me if her laptop was in the room?" I asked. Perhaps she had an itinerary on her calendar."No, but I'll check right away. Just hold on, please."I could hear her put down the phone and I waited impatiently until she returned what seemed like several minutes later."Yes, there's a laptop on the desk. All. Will you do that for us? We’d be very grateful.”“Damn, that’s just awful! Of course, I’ll arrange for the bus. Can I send Rosa over to help you get ready?”“That would be most helpful and appreciated. Now we have much to do before they arrive. Jesse will call you as soon as we learn their schedule. Thank you so much, Steve.”“It’s what friends and neighbors do. I’ll call Rosa now and get her on the way. Do you have enough food in the house? She can bring what we have and then do some shopping if. The Toivo expedition had been "locked and cocked" for more than five years now, even though it seemed no closer to actually coming off than it had when it was first dreamed up many years before that. Gil Evachevski had promised Kirsten, and Henry's father, Heikki, that if the chance ever came to go back to Vietnam and look for clues to what had happened to Henry, he'd go.Back in '81, it had looked as if there might be a chance, and several local Vietnam veterans had agreed to come along with. Kurt and Kathy are getting married in Milford in June, though I don’t know the date yet. Bethany is Kathy’s maid of honor, which is no surprise to anyone. Kurt asked me to be Best Man.”“That’s going to be what, three?” Dave laughed.I stopped at the light on Highland to make the left turn onto Butterfield.“Pete, Mikael, and Kurt. And I already gave away my first bride,” I chuckled.“What?”“Elyse’s aunt, Jenny. Her dad had died and she didn’t have a brother. She didn’t like her mom’s brother, so.