Part One-The Blue Vault of Heaven, Chapters 3 & 4 Summary

Rachel and the other children are having an usual morning at school when Miss Johnson, their teacher, announces that they have a visitor. Mr. Wyckoff is from the Board of Health, and he walks down the aisles among the children. Sometimes he just glances at the children and sometimes he touches them, as if inspecting their hands or faces. Some of the children whisper and call Wyckoff a "bounty hunter." When Wyckoff approaches the desk of Harry Woo, he pinches Harry's ear. Harry does not flinch in pain, and Wyckoff asks for the boy's name and address. Rachel notices that Harry does not come to school the next day or any other day. A classmate of Rachel's whispers that Harry has the "separating sickness."

Dorothy convinces Henry to accompany the whole...