The Captain told Kane to take his cushion pills, that they were contacting the pits at La Guardia within half an hour. "I still can't figure you," the Captain said. "Up there, just you and your wife for sixteen years. That's a hell of a long time." Kane smiled. He had been almost completely out of touch with the world for sixteen years, and it surprised him a little that anyone thought it remarkable in any way. Particularly the Captain who spent most of his time, too, alone. But the Captain was