mcelroy, smiling nicely, starting across toward him from the other side of the parking lot crosswalk forty feet up, a patch of blue sky through an open hatch. mcelroy at the bottom of the ladder, looking in the other direction . old stoltzfus and samuel standing in the kickboard opening . they stand solemnly, looking on as: the amishmen gathered – the stoltzfus family, the hochstetler brothers, et al. all staring hard at schaeffer and book.