Winters," Wendy Jean said, with a tear in her eye. "Youdidn't have to do this for me." It is for all of us, Wendy," Dawn said. "I needed to get a car.... Andwhen we saw this one in the dealership lot, there wasn't a questionthat I wouldn't get it. And Nick negotiated a great price for me.Apparently there isn't a lot of demand for a handicapped van in Sault,and the dealer was planning to ship it to Toronto to be sold atauction, probably taking a lot less than what we paid."By now Mark had Wendy in. ‘But still another inquiry remains, one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers. Whether owing to the almost omniscient look-outs at the mast-heads of the whale-ships, now penetrating even through Behring’s straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world, and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts, the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc, whether he must not at last be. I was sure that when the local construction and farmers found out they could get a full freshly cooked breakfast in the wee hours of the morning, this place was going to be busy.We were going to get our breakfast on a tray and disappear into Carson's office to have a real business update. While we were waiting, Hanna Page walked over to ask for an interview. Marley Kendall was nowhere in sight; I wondered if she had finally gotten the promotion she had been seeking for so long.I had a feeling. One of those pillars had consumed his three fine sons, his two lovely daughters, all dead of the plague. Another had consumed his wife, who'd thrown herself from the top floor of their apartment building, in despair over her dead children.He should have died like that, he knew. But unlike his wife, he'd been sick. He hadn't the strength to lever himself to his feet, much less to climb several ladders.Now he was strong enough to climb the pyramid. True, it had taken three days and if he hadn't.