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We continued to stare at each other No one else had been found in the house

“Oh, my God, Detectives, she is only six months old”

Chapter 8

THIS WASN’T OVER

I ran up to Captain Noroski, the fire chief, as barking cohtower’s sister says there was a six-month-old baby inside”

“No one’s inside, Lieutenant My o inside and look around again yourself”

Suddenly, the layout of the burning building came back to me I could see it non that same hallhere I’d found the boy My heart jumped “Not the upper floors, Captain, the first” There could’ve been a nursery down there, too

Noroski radioed someone still inside the site He directed him down the front hall

We stood in front of the s churned in my stomach The idea of a baby still in there Someone I could’ve saved We waited while Captain Noroski’s h the rubble

Finally, a fire,” he called out “We found the nursery Crib and a bassinet buried under a lot of rubble But no baby”

Dianne Aronoff uttered a cry of joy Her niece wasn’t in there Then a look of panic set in, her face registering a completely new horror If Caitlin wasn’t there, where was she?

Chapter 9

CHARLES DANKO STOOD at the edge of the croatching He wore the clothing of an expert bicyclist and had an older racing bike propped against his side If nothing else, the biking helles covered his face in case the police were fil the crowd, as they sometimes did

This couldn’t have goneas he observed the hohtoere dead, blown to pieces He hoped they had suffered greatly as they burned, even the children This had been a dreahtoing to terrify the good people of San Francisco This fie

ry action had taken nerve on his part, but finally he’d done so Look at the firemen, EMS, the local police They were all here, in honor of his work, or rather, its hus