บท 20: Chapter 20

“All we can do is wait and see.” Lori sighed.

“And pray.” Anne got up and started pacing through the house.

“Relax, Gram. Pacing will not help,” Lori sighed.

“I realize that, child, but I have to do something.” She peeked out the front windows to the yard where news people were setting up cameras and getting ready to record whatever they saw. The crews and their vans were blocking most of the oval driveway and some were camped across the lawn. Finally she sat in a chair by the windows and watched the pandemonium in the yard.

“Loring, I think you’ll need to answer the door,” Gramma Anne stated seriously as she watched the news people clear the way for a large black car to enter the driveway. It pushed slowly past the camera crews and news reporters.

Lori looked out as two men in striking black suits got out of the car and headed up to the front door.

“Government men,” Anne assessed. “They didn’t waste much time, did they?”