"What happened?" Garland emerged from the kitchen with a drumstick in his mouth.

Holding her phone, Liza said anxiously, "Dad isn't answering my calls."

Garland rolled his eyes. "What's so surprising about that? He never answers my calls."

"No," Liza said. "Dad loves me the most. He's never ignored my calls."

Debra chimed in, "Could it be that he didn't see the calls?"

"No way. My dad always has his phone with him. He didn't pick up last night. By now, he should have called me back," Liza explained.

"Well, why not just call home?" Garland whipped out his phone and called home.

The line soon went through.

"Hello, this is Eaton Mansion."

"It's me. Put my dad on the phone."

Is it really

else would it be? Just get

"Your father, he..."

going on? Did anything

is in

Is he ill? Is it

The doctor is pessimistic

coming home

hung up and

"What happened?"

We need to get back. I'll book the flight right

"What?"

Mansion, Verna hung up the phone and glanced at

"Sir, was that good?"

time, get to the point right away and

groaned inwardly, 'How much more urgent could I get? If

on the sofa while the butler poured him a cup of tea and asked, "Sir,

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