The envelope from Crane Hall is opened at Nana's kitchen table, in daylight, the way Papa Harry would have wanted. It is his handwriting. Nana knows it at a glance. And every line of it takes back what he spent his life saying. Five cousins start weighing the evidence. Jenna won't touch the letter again, and she can't say why, only that a thing can wear a man's hand and still not be him.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”

1 John 4:1 (KJV)

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The six cousins do the hard thing Papa Harry asked of them: they put on their Sunday clothes, drive two counties over, and sit in a chapel full of people who love Reverend Doctor Vernon Crane. The testimonies are true, and the applause is real, and David can't stop clapping. Then the choir sings an old crossing hymn all the way to the last verse, and for the first time the cousins see the polite man in the good coat from the front — and he has something for them.

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.”

Matthew 7:15–16 (KJV)

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A prayer request at Wednesday night service tells the whole county what the six cousins have been careful never to say out loud, and by Saturday a kind man in a good suit has driven out from the district office to ask them, gently, to stop. He means every word. Then the piece Papa Harry promised would find them turns up in the last pair of hands anyone expected, with the answer Peter gave the council — and Jenna, who has been learning the old crossing hymn the real way, down the side, finds the one name nobody thought to look for.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

Acts 4:12 (KJV)