A banging on the front door woke Ted up. He looked to the side and saw Mariana. Mariana Blades. Motherfucker, that happened. Who the hell is making that racket? And now the phone is ringing, too? Armageddon. Like to wake the dead. They’re gonna wake Dad up. Ted got up gingerly, threw on a robe, and went to the door. It was the gray panthers. They told him that Marty had been found at the kiosk. Benny found him collapsed there when he got to work, and they had called 911, and the ambulance took him back to Beth Israel in Manhattan.