Since his dying father placed a hand on his and asked that his ashes be taken to Bloomfield, Iowa, and while there an envelope be delivered to a Doctor Francis Casparis, Roger decided that he had better do it. His father had said, "I have metastatic cancer, and I will be dead within a week." And his father insisted that the envelope go to Iowa with his remains. His father said that Doctor Casparis had saved his life and that the doctor would tell Roger about it, and would help him also.

Roger Leeth stood helplessly by his father's hospital bed. "All I need right now," he thought, "with the divorce and custody dispute, to have a father I hardly know make demands upon me. He is as much a mystery to me dying as living."

But at least Diana allowed Roger to take along their eight-year-old son…